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Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

and G—that make up the genetic code. The prevailing belief was that by decoding these sequences, we could unlock how cells and organisms fundamentally work. Now, research from Northwestern Engineering ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

Scientists have already created designer viruses in a lab that can kill dangerous bacteria. The next step is designing and ...

Ever notice how everyone seems to know "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" even if they never read the original Washington Irving short story? The most likely reason for that phenomenon is the Disney ...