New precision genome editing technologies are transforming the therapeutic landscape for patients with certain cancers and ...

Heidelberg biochemists and structural biologists from Shanghai unravel the roles of two key regulatory factors in mRNA ...

A team from the University of Bath has developed peptides capable of permanently blocking the cJun protein, which is involved ...

Damage to the mitochondria, the 'power plants' of the cells, contributes to many diseases. Researchers now describe how cells with defective mitochondria activate a special recycling system to ...

Chromatin remodeling plays a vital role in gene regulation, affecting how DNA is accessed. Disruptions in this process can ...

At first glance, it looked like a genetic error — so severe it should have crippled the animal. But instead, it helped turn ...

Collaborative research led by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center defines a ...

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

Previous mouse studies have shown that, when conditions in cells are normal, removing, or “knocking out,” any one of the ...

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers at the University of Illinois ...

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers report. The aptamers -- short ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have discovered a new function of the DNA ...