The University of Minnesota is stepping up efforts to identify biological threats that could trigger an epidemic, launching ...

India has taken its first bold steps into space biology with a series of pioneering experiments aboard the International ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

Researchers at the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University have developed a model that accurately ...

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Hughes was one of the first to raise this concern, stating that ‘the need to keep donor animals free—as far as possible—from infectious agents may require them to be raised in isolation, and the ...

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian ...

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian ...

In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...