In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems.

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

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A child with a rare genetic disorder — spinal muscular atrophy type I — was treated prenatally for the first time. Courtesy of Jakob Owens  via Unsplash During an amniocentesis test, a long, thin ...

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The National Institutes of Health is terminating dozens of studies examining why people are hesitant about vaccines and how ...

Johns Hopkins scientists develop mRNA "booster" as potential new way to treat rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University utilized CRISPR to cut a single gene from cancer cells of head and neck tumors—and ...