Our microbiomes, the communities of microbes living in and on our bodies, influence everything from our weight to our cancer risk. But many of the mechanisms that link bacteria to our health remain ...

CRISPR—Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats—is the microbial world’s answer to adaptive immunity. Bacteria don’t generate antibodies when they are invaded by a pathogen and then ...

A new base-editing system that uses RNA aptamers to position DNA modifying enzymes at genome targets is adept in performing point-mutation edits and can enhance the therapeutic potential of genome ...

To many working biologists, DNA-modifying enzymes are tools, not unlike a pair of molecule-sized scissors. To Dr. Barry Stoddard, a professor in the Basic Sciences division at Fred Hutch, these ...

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Watchmaker Genomics, a supplier of innovative products for molecular analysis, today announced a multi-year, co-exclusive agreement with Exact Sciences Corporation, a ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...