Despite being made from a relatively simple set of building blocks, ribonucleic acid (RNA) has a broad array of complex ...

Despite being made from a relatively simple set of building blocks, ribonucleic acid (RNA) has a broad array of complex ...

A new study brings scientists closer to uncovering how life began on Earth.

Northwestern scientists have developed a new nanostructure that supercharges CRISPR’s ability to safely and efficiently enter cells, potentially unlocking its full power to treat genetic diseases. By ...

More than a decade ago, scientists harnessed a bacterial molecular machine that identifies and cuts specific sections of DNA, ...

Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist and former Caltech president David Baltimore—who found himself at the center of ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

A university-led team has received £3.8m to develop new treatments for cancer and chronic inflammation. The consortium, made ...

A study, published in the journal Frontiers in Genome Editing, outlines a method for editing single plant cells from sterile ...

He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology and led to an understanding of ...

Nearly 50 new cancer therapies are approved every year. This is good news. "But for patients and their treating physicians, ...

Researchers have unveiled a new type of nanostructure that dramatically improves CRISPR delivery. Called lipid nanoparticle ...