The personalized CRISPR treatment could be the future of gene therapy, but hurdles remain before everyone has access.

Oral 8-aminoguanine (8-AG) treatment preserved retinal structure and rod function in aged Fischer 344 rats, significantly ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have addressed a longstanding challenge in CRISPR ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that ...

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

New research published in Nature Communications into hidden mutations in mitochondrial DNA has uncovered how high mutational ...

Early research shows that editing expanding trinucleotide repeats halts the lengthening process that causes neurological ...

“You share 50 percent of your DNA with each of your parents. But with bananas, we share about 50 percent of our genes,” Mike ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

Scientists have identified sequences in great apes' DNA capable of forming unconventional structures called non-B DNA. These ...

DNA synthesis is the biological process by which a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule is created. In the cell, each of the two strands of the DNA molecule acts as a template for the synthesis of ...

An example of RNA modification is the addition of a methylated guanine nucleotide cap to the 5 -end of messenger RNAs (mRNAs). Chen, Zhou, Xue et al. show that psychological stress leads to ...