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

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that a single injection of a small, circular piece of genetic instruction can ...

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed new portable field devices that will allow soldiers to identify unknown ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have identified a compound that sharply reduced nerve-cell death in mice engineered to develop ...

Researchers have demonstrated a nondestructive way to collect cellular material from historical parchment manuscripts, allowing them to conduct genetic analyses that offer new insights into everything ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

Female fertility depends on the successful growth and maturation of eggs (oocytes) within ovarian follicles. Within these ...

RNA interference is a natural mechanism for living cells to control whether specific genes are being used. Crowned with the ...

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...