A medical breakthrough could result in the first treatment for rare but serious diseases in which genetic defects disrupt ...

When the mechanisms that replicate or repair mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fail, it can cause a wide range of syndromes for which ...

The Charleston police opened a new DNA testing lab with the capability of efficiently analyzing samples in the hopes of ...

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To grow, cancer tumors must hijack the immune system for their needs. One of the main tricks that most tumors use is to ...

A medical breakthrough could result in the first treatment for rare but serious diseases in which genetic defects disrupt cellular energy production. Researchers have identified a molecule that helps ...

The team from Israel, the US, and China has developed a genetic method to reprogramme a type of immune cell, turning them from cancer promoters to inhibitors ...

“Instead of floating freely and risking uneven distribution, the 2-micron plasmid has evolved a clever trick of hitchhiking,” ...

How pharma could shift from curing disease to promoting healthy ageing through epigenetics, the microbiome and antimicrobial ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...