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 ...
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 ...
Doctors have begun sequencing newborn DNA to detect dangerous but treatable conditions before any symptoms appear. In pilot ...
The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...
Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...
Zoos and private collections teach, inspire, and connect people to animals they may never encounter in the wild. And, in some ...
A 2-million-year-old protein sequence has revealed an unexpected twist in human ancestry, one scientists didn’t see coming.
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