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Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

Gene-edited spiders had never been seen before. Then University of Bayreuth researchers used CRISPR Cas-9 to give spiders red silk.

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In a recent study published in Life Metabolism, Dr. Zhuoxian Meng’s team at Zhejiang University School of Medicine uncovered a novel mechanism by ...

In recent years, scientists have made big strides in understanding mental health conditions like autism spectrum disorder ...

They found that mice lacking the cystathionine γ-lyase enzyme experienced the most significant weight loss, nearly 31%, on ...

As researchers work to improve treatment of Alzheimer's disease, new research by UCLA Health identified a candidate drug that ...

The researchers described the unprecedented speed of the oversight steps as being "through alternative procedures." In month ...

The scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore injected an ...