Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

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Recognized in the Biotechnology category of the 2025 Top Innovations contest, small Cas12l nucleases are versatile, ...

Most current approaches rely on adding nuclear localization signal (NLS) motifs to the ends of Cas9 to facilitate nuclear entry. However, this method is inefficient, and much of the Cas9 that is ...

Commensal microbes—especially those in the gut, skin, and oral cavity—are rapidly becoming programmable living therapeutics.

Not only do these crops possess the ability to withstand harsh environmental ... Optimizing tissue culture regeneration in neglected crops • Application of CRISPR/Cas and other genome editing tools in ...

We present PPTAgent, an innovative system that automatically generates presentations from documents. Drawing inspiration from human presentation creation methods, our system employs a two-step process ...

The rings of DNA inside mitochondria are inaccessible to these techniques, which means that precise edits to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) remain frustratingly out of reach. “Mitochondria missed the ...

CRISPR’s gene-editing technology inspires Louis Gale to blur the lines between science and philosophy in his latest novel. “The idea of human evolution has intrigued scientists from the very beginning ...

The Senate returned Friday, Oct. 10, for just seconds with presiding officer, Sen. John Thune, adjourning any Senate votes on the government shutdown 2025 until after the holiday weekend, fizzling any ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua Modell of ...