A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...

Temporal encoding of signalling dynamics is not just widespread; it offers a fundamental information-theoretic advantage in cellular communication. Recent advances in channel capacity measurement and ...

Digging deep into the molecular mechanisms behind ALS, researchers at the Les Turner ALS Center at Northwestern Medicine have discovered why nerve cells overfire in the disease. Not only that—they ...

Recent advances in subcellular imaging transcriptomics platforms have enabled spatial mapping of the expression of hundreds of genes at subcellular resolution and provide topographic context to the ...

Vaccination during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle results in a higher chance of side effects, but a longer time to infection.