Even gene drives aimed at controlling malaria-carrying mosquitoes rely on CRISPR’s precision. Among CRISPR’s many variants, the compact Type V Cas12 enzymes—key players in genome editing, diagnostics, ...

The director of UVA’s treatment program sees reason for “cautious optimism” after a small study’s positive results.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a comprehensive atlas of genetic coding sequences in both healthy adult hearts and those with heart failure, a resource that has the potential to ...

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CRISPR-Cas systems are adaptive immune systems found in prokaryotes that defend against invading nucleic acids through CRISPR RNA-guided cleavage. Type V CRISPR-Cas (Cas12) systems, in particular, ...

Oceans churned with lava. Air filled thick with smoke. Asteroids stormed down incessantly. Life during the Hadean Eon four billion years ago was a struggle, and yet that was when it began. 1,2 With no ...

Cancer cells are relentless in their quest to grow and divide, often rewiring their metabolism and modifying RNA to stay one step ahead.

Unlike the deodorant you coat your armpits in every morning, whole body deodorant doesn’t have the same heavy-duty antiperspirant agents like aluminum salts and instead tends to focus on antibacterial ...

IGF2BP3 links cancer metabolism and RNA control, offering a potential new therapeutic target for blocking leukemia cell growth.

As lawmakers prepare legislation to roll back mandates, the surgeon general has floated going one step further: banning mRNA vaccines. Medical experts say that would have public health implications.

RNA therapies have emerged as a transformative modality across vaccines, cancer immunotherapy, and gene editing. Novel delivery vehicles that can protect ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) around their genomes, a process that—while messy and complex—consistently ...