The CRISPR genetic scissors both inspire hope and fear given their potential to revolutionize the world. This powerful genetic engineering tool is bound to capture ...

Ever since scientists discovered they could tamper with genetic material, people have questioned whether the technology is too powerful and too dangerous to unleash on the world. Now, just in the last ...

Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

Fluorogenic DNA aptamers produce light only in the correct structural state, enabling programmable molecular logic, biosensing, DNA origami integrity reporting, and reusable mRNA detection through ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...

This breakthrough provides a reference-quality blueprint of the RPE-1 cell line, a workhorse in laboratories around the globe. Dante Omics leveraged its expertise with the Dante Labs genome sequencing ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Biologist Charles Darwin began crafting his theory of evolution on a trip to the Galapagos Islands, where he discovered animals had developed unique traits that varied from island to island. Nearly ...

Wacker and Gearbox Biosciences agreed to collaborate to advance plasmid DNA manufacturing technologies. By combining Wacker’s expertise in GMP manufacturing of biologics, including pDNA, with Gearbox ...

Targeted DNA editing by CRISPR technology has great potential for applications in biotechnology and gene therapy. However, precise gene editing remains a challenge largely due to insufficient control ...