NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

A lot of things need to go right on a molecular level for immune cells to launch an adaptive response to an infection.

Researchers use zebrafish models to discover that the RLS risk gene MEIS1 regulates Purkinje cell survival and motor control.

For a company whose lead technology is still preclinical, building a board stocked with big-company financial and operating discipline is a statement of intent: that Conexeu means to be judged not as ...

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Sudarshan Pinglay is a synthetic biologist who leads a research laboratory affiliated with the University of Washington and the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology in Seattle, Washington. Ten years ago, ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion. Researchers discovered that it actively reshapes the 3D structure of the human ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Students at Elizabeth City State University have made history by becoming the first researchers from a historically Black college or university to contribute to a nationwide ...