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

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, ...

Since the discovery of penicillin nearly a century ago, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a stealthy, pervasive enemy ...

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

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

Rocket Pharmaceuticals acknowledged the death of a patient in a pivotal trial assessing its Danon disease gene therapy candidate RP-A501, a study that the FDA has placed on clinical hold.

The liposarcoma pipeline report provides detailed profiles of pipeline assets, a comparative analysis of clinical and non-clinical stage liposarcoma drugs, inactive and dormant assets, a comprehensive ...

Hydrolysis of the phosphodiester linkages in DNA is a notoriously difficult reaction. Deoxyribozymes that use Zn 2+ and Mn 2+ ions to accelerate this reaction by a factor of one hundred million ...

The yeast nuclear endonuclease Rnt1 has a well-characterized role in the maturation of many ncRNA precursors. However, the scope and consequence of its function in mRNA degradation pathways is much ...

Researchers work in a mobile Fire-Eye laboratory in Beijing in June 2020. The labs can identify coronavirus infections, as well as decipher and analyze human DNA. (Fu Tian/China News Service/Getty ...