Xenotransplantation, leveraging genetic engineering and CRISPR, offers a promising solution to the organ shortage crisis ...

Imagine being able to flip a light switch to control disease pathways inside a living cell. A team of visionary researchers ...

In many ways, this is how ecosystems scale. NVIDIA’s CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), for example, succeeded not ...

Don’t ever underestimate the power of DNA on your beating heart, as it can be the root cause of heart failure. Dr. Travis Hinson, a cardiologist at UConn School of Medicine is trying to fix that.

Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.

Transgenic technology has become an essential tool for the development of animal biotechnologies, and animal cloning through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) enabled the generation of genetically ...

This article aims to provide scientific information and resources to help communities and individuals make informed decisions about environmental and public health issues. The mission is to foster ...

The human genome holds about three billion base pairs within each cell. Although tools like Crispr have revolutionized the editing of single genes and individual nucleic acid bases, researchers have ...

Rare genetic traits are features that are uncommon within the general population. They can lead to different observable features or to rare physical abilities. Rare genetic traits are typically ...

A team led by MSK physician-scientist Dr. Christopher Klebanoff has discovered that immune cells are the unexpected source of a protein called FAS-ligand, which has undermined the cancer-fighting ...