Discover how scientists essentially added a guide molecule to the gene editor to help it insert an entire gene into the most ...

Regeneron is buying 23andMe for $256M in bankruptcy, gaining access to DNA data from 15 million users to aid drug research.

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two ...

Darwinian evolution says that complex systems arise through numerous successive, slight modifications that benefit the species' survival over many generations. However, we have shown that bacterial ...

UC Irvine scientists developed bioluminescent RNA tags, "tiny guiding lights," using luciferase to track RNA in real-time, ...

Born in Mostar, educated in Sarajevo and Italy, and today a scientist in Germany – Dr. Emina Merdan is pushing the boundaries ...

NAD+ activates sirtuins, “longevity proteins” that repair DNA and boost cell function. Studies show higher NAD+ levels ...

Molecules like DNA are capable of storing large amounts of data without requiring an energy source, but accessing this molecular data is expensive and time consuming. Researchers have now developed an ...

In the new study published in the Cell Press journal Chem, researchers were able to store and decode an 11-character password ...

Discover 9 promising small molecule drug discovery companies that recently raised funding for their potentially breakthrough ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that ...

Enzymes help digest food, clean laundry, make perfumes, and build medicines. They also break down toxins in the environment.