This week a group of researchers, bioethicists, publishers and theologians are discussing the merits of human heritable genome editing.

The human body and its organs are composed of a wide variety of cell types. Although all cells contain the same genes, they ...

published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. That is an order of magnitude greater than the annual yield increases currently being achieved through breeding. The effect was achieved by applying ...

Oxford University and the Rosalind Franklin Institute in a study published today in the journal Nature Biotechnology. That is an order of magnitude greater than annual yield increases currently ...

Teamwork is crucial for proteins. Little is known, however, about which protein teams are actually active in which tissues. A ...

Microalgae of the species Monoraphidium contortum have the ability to remove antibiotic residues from water, especially ...

Traditionally, bacterial diseases are diagnosed by the tedious isolation of pathogens and the creation of bacterial cultures.

When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1" project, an international, interdisciplinary research team is ...

In the ongoing effort to find better ways to fight cancer, scientists have developed a creative approach that uses the body’s ...

Fatal drug overdoses among youth aged 15 to 24 in the United States involving synthetic opioids alone?not mixed with other substances?soared by 168 percent over the five-year time period of 2018 to ...