No doubt 2025 will usher in many more advances in CRISPR therapies, thanks to the FDA’s new Platform Technology Designation ...

On Friday, in a significant policy shift, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced immediate cuts to grants ...

Did you see this? Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have asthma. Here's what causes it.

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The effect of cystic fibrosis on many organs and the frequent lung infections means that it is mostly diagnosed in childhood. Somehow, for Verônica Stasiak Bednarczuk, that diagnosis did not arrive ...

From understanding hereditary diseases to predicting drug responses, sequencing helps researchers uncover the subtle language ...

For all of last year, Illumina’s net loss grew 5% from $1.161 billion to $1.223 billion, on revenue that fell 3% from $4.505 ...

Here, Johannesman et al demonstrate that some phages have co-opted an orphan antitoxin to counter a DNA ADP-ribosyltransferase defense system. Selecting subsets of specific sequences from complex ...

It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including the molecular structure and function of genes, gene behaviour in the context of a cell or organism (e.g ...