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Oct. 11, 2022 A team led by investigators has overcome a major constraint for cutting and editing DNA by CRISPR-Cas enzymes and other ...
Dec. 21, 2023 A new technique to clone and reassemble DNA, dubbed CReATiNG, could simplify and lower the cost to make synthetic chromosomes. Potential applications are numerous, including pharmaceutical ...
Sep. 27, 2023 Experts in cloning and stem cell science are reporting that five lung stem cell variants dominate the lungs of patients with advanced cystic fibrosis, and that these variants drive key aspects of CF ...
Feb. 13, 2024 Researchers have created a new version of a microbe to compete economically with E. coli -- a bacteria commonly used as a research tool due to its ability to synthesize proteins -- to conduct ...
Oct. 18, 2021 A research team led by Dr Karen Wing Yee YUEN, Associate Professor from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), revealed the mechanism of artificial chromosome (AC) ...
Sep. 27, 2021 If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is the father. When scientists kept running into aggravating problems with the existing tools and methods they were using to perform genetic ...
May 27, 2022 Researchers have succeeded in understanding the biosynthetic mechanisms for the production of the natural product cyanobacterin, which is produced in small quantities by the cyanobacteria Scytonema ...
Mar. 2, 2022 All life evolves: microorganisms can become resistant to drugs, viruses evade our vaccines, and species may adapt to climate change. Even the ability to evolve can evolve. If we were to understand ...
Jan. 27, 2022 The findings will be used to help researchers determine how traits, characteristics and color impact ...
Jan. 4, 2023 A fungus that infects salamanders contains multiple copies of the same 'jumping genes', scientists have ...