Genetic change to non-DNA structures in cell can cause cancer
A mutation that affects the proteins that package DNA--without changing the DNA itself--can cause a rare form of cancer, according to new...
Evidence that Life Might Have Started with RNA, or not?
Summary Researchers attempt to show how RNA bases could self-assemble in conditions that might resemble Earth’s theoretical primordial...
Research Reveals Why Probiotic Therapies May Not Work for All Patients
The community of beneficial bacteria that live in our intestines, known as the gut microbiome, are important for the development and...
Experimental malaria vaccine protects adults for more than a year
At a Glance An experimental malaria vaccine protected healthy adults from infection for more than a year after immunization. The vaccine...
Mapping Traits to Genes with CRISPR Researchers develop a technique to direct chromosome recombinati
When mapping phenotypic traits to specific loci, scientists typically rely on the natural recombination of chromosomes during meiotic...
With CRISPR, Modeling Disease in Mini Organs. Organoids grown from genetically edited stem cells are
Traditionally, gene therapy efforts have attempted to treat genetic diseases by modifying DNA inside a patient’s body, but it has been a...
FDA Expands Use of Antiangiogenic to Kidney Cancer
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved the use of the antiangiogenic therapeutic...
FDA Expands Use of Molecularly Targeted Therapeutic for Lung Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the use of molecularly targeted therapeutic afatinib (Gilotrif) for...
Fighting Cancer With Killer T-Cells
Three companies are locked in a tight race to develop next-generation immuno-oncology treatments called chimeric antigen receptor T-cells...
Scientists solve CRISPR’s enthusiasm for cutting DNA
Molecule by molecule, the transformational genome-editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9 is getting so many upgrades so quickly it’s like...
