Inside the Destiny laboratory module aboard the International Space Station, NASA flight engineer Zena Cardman recently ...

A newly proposed model suggests cancer cells may resist treatment not just through genetic mutations, but by dynamically ...

Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

Following Flagship's origination of generative protein and mRNA platforms, Serif is pioneering Modified DNA medicines to program the foundational information layer of biology Serif to present data at ...

Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs), relics from ancient viral infections, form a significant part of vertebrate genomes, including humans, where they constitute ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

Systemic candidiasis is an opportunistic fungal infection that has been difficult to treat effectively. Research published in a paper in the April edition of Cell Host & Microbe suggests that immune ...

CRISPR is a powerful DNA-editing tool that has underpinned huge advancements in human health care in the last decade. It is a precision tool, but is not perfect, and misplaced DNA edits can compromise ...

One of the most advanced cancer treatments available today may soon get a major upgrade. CAR-T therapy has already saved lives, but it remains complex, expensive, and difficult to access. Now, ...

Manufacturing CAR T cell therapy—one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers—has to date involved an elaborate process, through which doctors first extract a patient’s immune cells ...

The most common side effects of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot are well known: soreness, mild fever, and general malaise. Those symptoms, which typically resolve within days, are the natural ...

Postdoctoral fellow and co-first author Dongyoon Kim demonstrates some of the equipment used to craft the new ionizable lipids. The most common side effects of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot are ...