Cyclone is a portable gene-switch system that uses acyclovir to reversibly control gene expression with minimal toxicity.

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their cells into tiny factories that churn out a protein that is essentially the ...

Researchers have discovered a specific set of neurons in the amygdala that can trigger anxiety and social deficits when ...

Study reshapes view of how a common leukemia begins and could point to new therapeutic strategies targeting a common weakness.

New research reveals lifting weights can help control Type-2 diabetes. Building muscle improves how the body uses sugar. This ...

Thirty-five dollars might get you a mediocre dinner or half a tank of gas these days, but at Livingston Antique Outlet in Howell, Michigan, it’s like walking around with a magic wand that transforms ...

First company to enable precision in vivo genome engineering, combining both cell-specific delivery and programmable, locus-specific gene insertion, with the potential to achieve physiological, durabl ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Lepidopterist Joana Meier of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a leader of Project Psyche, packs the abdomen of a moth into a vial for shipment from Italy to the institute in England. A bar code on the ...