Researchers engineered and screened dozens of base editors to precisely target a single mutation without editing other portions of the DNA.

Recently, a review titled "Circulating tumor cell-derived organoids: current progress, applications, and future" was published in MedComm - Future Medicine. The article systematically summarises the ...

The obesity rate has more than doubled in the last 30 years, affecting more than one billion people worldwide. This prevalent condition is also linked to other metabolic disorders, including type 2 ...

Autophagy—meaning "self-eating" in Greek—is a fundamental cellular mechanism that preserves cell health by recycling and ...

The study will interest researchers studying genome organisation in mitosis. Genomes assume a complex 3D architecture in the interphase cell nucleus. Yet, the molecular mechanisms that determine ...

The Milner Therapeutics Institute launched a new functional genomics screening laboratory (FGSL) in Cambridge, U.K. The lab will support research and innovation in functional genomics, which explores ...

In biology’s standard tale of two acids — deoxyribonucleic (DNA) and ribonucleic (RNA) — RNA is merely the messenger. Its better-known cousin DNA plays the lead role, issuing genetic instructions for ...

Tiny "hidden" proteins lurking in DNA once dismissed as junk may hold the key to the next generation of obesity drugs, according to a new study that has uncovered dozens of new fat-regulating ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DEM BioPharma, Inc. (DEM Bio), an immuno-oncology company developing therapies that target novel innate immune system checkpoints to eliminate cancer, today ...

DNA is transcribed into RNA, which is then translated into proteins. This is the central dogma of molecular biology – a mantra taught to every biology undergraduate student to be recalled and expanded ...