A new family of enzymes enables precise cuts in single-stranded DNA, offering powerful new tools for genetic engineering and ...

Enzymes are present in microorganisms, plants and animals and act as catalysts in various chemical reactions. This means that they increase the rate of the reactions. Because of this they can be ...

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Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic ... transcriptase before reaching pegRNA scaffold. The compact Cas12f enzyme exhibits obvious delivery advantage for gene editing, but ...

Now, a new study from Scripps Research demonstrates a proof of concept for a new strategy: engineering proteases—enzymes that cut proteins at specific sites—to selectively degrade these ...

Credit: ASHBi/Kyoto University Japanese researchers used a nonviral piggyBac system to genetically modify cynomolgus monkeys, enabling more accurate disease models and advancing primate genetic ...

Genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in the United States on Sunday, raising concerns about the fate of highly sensitive genetic data from its 15 million customers. The company, best ...

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Since ancestral enzymes no longer exist, scientists use a technique called ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) to study their evolution. ASR combines molecular phylogenetics with genetic and ...