The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...
Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...
A new discovery inside your cells may change how scientists understand disease and design future treatments. Researchers have ...
For all of human history, death has been viewed as a final cessation of life in an organism, but new research is offering hope for restoration.
A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...
Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a study finds, furthering the understanding of the possible effects of space exploration on the human body.
Most people recognize Alzheimer's from its devastating symptoms such as memory loss, while new drugs target pathological aspects of disease manifestations, such as plaques of amyloid proteins. Now a ...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), manmade chemicals that accumulate in the body over time, have been linked to liver disease and cancer, but it is not yet clear how they cause damage. USC ...
In the march of metastasis, a molecular trail of crumbs guides some cancer cells from the primary tumor to establish new ...