By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...

BMS agreed to pay $1.5 billion to acquire Orbital. With the acquisition, the Big Pharma firm will inherit a multitude of ...

KAIST (President Kwang Hyung Lee) announced on the 9th of October that Sovargen (co-led by CEOs Cheolwon Park and Jeong Ho ...

With support from the National Institutes of Health, the COBRE Center for RNA Biology in Health and Disease will create a ...

One of his early teachers called his scientific ambitions “ridiculous.” Undeterred, Dr. Gurdon went on to transform the ...

In a quest to develop new antiviral drugs for COVID-19 and other diseases, a collaboration led by scientists at The Wertheim ...

In a quest to develop new antiviral drugs for COVID-19 and other diseases, a collaboration led by scientists at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute has identified a potential new drug against the virus ...

Pests can be the make-or-break factor for a season’s harvest. Between 20% to 40% of global crop production is lost to pests annually, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

RNA-protein interactions regulate many essential processes in cells, from turning genes on and off to responding to stress.

As CRISPR continues to drive breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, and synthetic biology, understanding its origins does more than tell an ancient story. It provides a blueprint for engineering the ...

CRISPR-Cas systems are adaptive immune systems found in prokaryotes that defend against invading nucleic acids through CRISPR ...