Team from Würzburg, Braunschweig, and the US identifies Cas12a3 nuclease showing precise activity | Study just published in Nature ...

When the concept of RNA interference was first introduced in the early 2000s, it raised the tantalizing possibility of using RNA molecules to modify human gene expression. 1 Since then, a wide range ...

Chemist Anne Lüscher showed at 39C3 how synthetic DNA can be used for data storage and tamper-proof authentication.

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

Through a recent notice, the Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has ...

This is a summary of: Liu. H. et al. Viral RNA blocks circularization to evade host codon usage control. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09809-y (2025).

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...