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

Cells are the smallest units of life. But even within the same tissue or organ, they are not all identical. New variations arise continuously during cell proliferation. While genetic mutations alter ...

Cancer epigenetics is the study of somatically heritable changes to molecular processes that influence the flow of information between the DNA of cancer cells and their gene expression patterns ...

Inflammation peptides have emerged as intriguing molecules in scientific exploration, offering various properties that may hold promise for diverse research domains.

Microorganisms generate all sorts of materials that could serve as potential agents for combating bacteria and fungi. An ...

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

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 ...

From a small California winery to a large-scale energy project in China, floating photovoltaics—or "floatovoltaics"—are ...

Antibodies are a crucial part of the body's specific defense against infectious diseases and have considerable potential as therapeutic and prophylactic agents in humans and animals. The ...

Laughing gas (nitrous oxide or N₂O) is primarily released by the microorganisms responsible for cleaning our wastewater.

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

A study published in the journal Cell marks the first reported instance of generative AI designing synthetic molecules that ...