The discovery of recombinant DNA proved that biology, not chemistry alone, could create new medicines like life-saving insulin.

Successfully treating type 2 diabetes may involve focusing on brain neurons, rather than simply concentrating on obesity or ...

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

TAHITI couples CRISPR with transposable elements from plants to edit cash crops such as corn and soybean with reduced ...

One of the most commonly used gene-delivery methods relies on engineered viruses to insert stretches of genetic material into a cell’s genome. Although effective, these viruses tend to insert their ...

One of the greatest transformations in modern medicine arguably began with a corned beef sandwich.It was the late 1960s, and new Department of ...

Although gene-editing and other techniques can improve the production of microbe-based biologics, AI could push these drugs ...

Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China ...

MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, the research team carried out a more in-depth and detailed investigation of the total genetic material of the E. coli bacteria than has ever been ...