Single-cell genomics study reveals cell types relevant to disease progression, immune response suppression. A research team led by scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and…
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Computational method helps scientists examine microbes at a larger, more comprehensive scale than previously possible. During the Zika virus outbreak of 2015–16, public health officials…
Q: What is “CRISPR”? A: “CRISPR” (pronounced “crisper”) stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are the hallmark of a bacterial defense system…
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered a set of simple rules that determine the precision of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in human cells. These…
Genome editing (also called gene editing) is a group of technologies that give scientists the ability to change an organism’s DNA. These technologies allow genetic…
This rice has had some of its DNA bases altered by a form of the genome editor CRISPR, but some of them were not the…
In 1922, a 14-year-old boy in Toronto, Canada, received the first injection of insulin to treat life-threatening diabetes. The same year, researchers began to test…
In June 2018, the FDA approved the first-ever pharmaceutical derived from the cannabis plant, Epidiolex (cannabidiol, CBD). GW Pharmaceuticals’ lead therapeutic reduces the frequency of…
As Silicon Valley trendsetters, famous actors, and online health sites tout the low-carbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic, or “keto,” diet, scientists are working to study it –…
Hint: It’s not because of science. If you still have yet to shake the last tendrils of paranoia over last year’s historic Ebola outbreak, you’re…