Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...
An interview with Hunt for the Oldest DNA director Niobe Thompson about chronicling Eske Willerslev's breakthrough research ...
Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.
Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.
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Inside the Massive Effort to Sequence All of Europe’s Lepidoptera
It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...
While some practices remain controversial or speculative, biohackers are united by a shared curiosity: how can we engineer ...
In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach ...
What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...
Traces of plague bacteria were found in a medieval skeleton from St Giles' Cathedral after new scientific analysis.
Doctors have begun sequencing newborn DNA to detect dangerous but treatable conditions before any symptoms appear. In pilot ...
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