DNA's double act: How genetic copies stick together during replication

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies ...
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Israeli researchers report breakthrough gene therapy for hearing and balance disorders

Scientists from Tel Aviv University and Boston Children's Hospital use a optimized virus to deliver a corrected gene into the ...
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Da Vinci's Genetic Secrets May Soon Be Revealed by Ambitious DNA Project

Scientists at the Leonardo DNA Project say they are getting closer to reconstructing the 500-year-old DNA of Leonardo da ...
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AI-Designed DNA Switches Flip Gene Expression On and Off

Researchers at the Jackson Laboratory (JAX), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Yale University, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to design thousands of new DNA switches that can ...

Novel gene editing technology enables selective destruction of cancer cell DNA using fewer targets

Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST and the Center for Genomic Integrity at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have announced an advance in cancer gene therapy. Their ...

The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

At the WIRED Health summit, biochemist David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a new gene-editing technique that ...

You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish

The fish that limbed vertebrates evolved from don't have obvious digit equivalents, and the most common types of fish just ...

Want to save an endangered species? Start with the right DNA blueprint

When scientists want to trace how a species has changed over time—and predict its prospects for survival—they turn to DNA.