MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we ...

A gibbous moon hangs over a lonely mountain trail in the Italian Alps, above the village of Malles Venosta, whose lights dot the valley below. Benjamin Wiesmair stands next to a moth trap as tall as ...

MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a technique with promise for treating numerous ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...

Discover the biological significance of hidden RNAs and learn how to detect them in RNA-Seq data using advanced techniques.

Since 2019, MIT researchers have published a new concept called prime editing, which is more precise than regular CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. As a result, it has fewer off-target effects and less chance ...

Pests can be the make-or-break factor for a season’s harvest. Between 20% to 40% of global crop production is lost to pests annually, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

Genome editors are molecular machines that can rewrite the genetic code in cells, but sometimes they produce errors in the form of unintended sequence insertions or deletions, collectively known as ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...

Ancestry DNA offers an in-depth breakdown of family trees and lineage, while 23andMe is better if you want to know about your ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...