Researchers have revealed new details about the CRISPR-Cas5-HNH/Cascade complex, a variant of the type I-E CRISPR-Cas system, ...

A study published in Nature Communications and conducted by researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed new ...

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the fundamental building block of life. It carries the genetic instructions that dictate ...

By Balambal Suryanarayanan CRISPR-Cas9 is a repurposed gene editing tool that allows scientists to cut, replace, and insert pieces of DNA in precise regions along the strand. Courtesy of NIH Image ...

The Double Helix” paints Watson and Crick as lone pioneers while downplaying the contributions of others, most notably of ...

A new lawsuit claims that a hairstylist developed bladder cancer from working with a dye chemical for decades. The answer: quite possibly. Even more intriguing, the dye itself is harmless—but its ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

Markita Landry is the first to admit that the two applications her research addresses – imaging brain chemistry and delivering genetic material into plants – are rather divergent.

Here is the ultimate vision of systems biology: an entire living cell modeled on a computer. Type in a genetic mutation or ...

Oligonucleotide therapies are among the most promising biological therapeutics. They target disease at a different stage of ...

Hydrogels are polymeric materials with three-dimensional network structures containing large amounts of water. They serve as sustained-release drug delivery systems as they can encapsulate various ...