You may have seen it in the news recently: a baby in Pennsylvania with a rare genetic disorder was healed with a personalized treatment that repaired his specific genetic mutation.

Epigenetic changes do not alter the genetic code itself, but by changing how DNA is organized within the cell, epigenetic ...

The work, which exploits a natural process where plant cells die on purpose to help the host plant stay healthy, is expected ...

Using “DNA origami,” the team’s digital nucleic acid memory (dNAM) technology relies on a three-dimensional “pegboard” ...

These fundamental findings offer a novel mechanism by which rubrerythrin tubules encapsulate encapsulin to prevent oxidative stress in Pyrococcus furiosus. However, there are a few reasonable concerns ...

This landmark study describes the structure of the human RAD51 filament with a recombination intermediate called the displacement loop (D-loop). Using cryogenic structural, biochemical, and ...

Yorgo El Moubayed is a program coordinator at the iGEM Foundation, running the world’s biggest synthetic biology competition. He focuses on developing synthetic biology ecosystems through research, ...

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When crystallographers use this technique to analyze a large and pure sample, the resulting X-ray patterns contain all the information needed to determine its atomic-level structure. Best known for ...

the resulting X-ray patterns contain all the information needed to determine its atomic-level structure. Best known for enabling the discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure, the method has ...

Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale ... of every atom and every bond within a particular structure. If one element was out of place, it ...