An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital ...

Mosquitoes engineered to swap out an amino acid in a key protein were resistant to malaria infection, preventing them from transmitting the disease.

The newly developed system uses CRISPR-Cas9 “scissors” and a guide RNA to make a genetic cut at a precise location within the mosquito’s genome. It then replaces the unwanted amino acid that transmits ...

Colon cancer remains a major global health concern, ranking third among the most diagnosed cancers and the leading cause of ...

Many people with cancer experience dramatic loss of muscle and fat tissue. In many cases, even the heart muscle is affected, ...

Inside each cell of the human body are proteins that control which genes are expressed at the right place and time. However, intriguingly, many of the most important proteins involved in gene ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered the ...

An international research team led from Uppsala University has identified new mechanisms behind how the aggressive brain ...

The field of gerontology is witnessing a significant demographic transition, as the global population of individuals aged 65 ...

While humans can escape the heat by seeking shade or shedding layers, plants remain rooted in place. So how do they survive ...

A research team led by Dr. Hye sun Cho at the Plant Systems Engineering Research Center of the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology(KRIBB) has uncovered, for the first time at the ...