Scientists could one day create genetically modified ‘designer babies’ — but should they?
This week, the Congressional Research and Technology Subcommittee held its first hearing on the science and ethics of genetically...
Humans carry recessive disease mutations that can cause severe genetic disorders or prenatal death
Humans carry an average of one to two mutations per person that can cause severe genetic disorders or prenatal death when two copies of...
Stopping HIV with an artificial protein
For 30 years, researchers have struggled to determine which immune responses best foil HIV, information that has guided the design of...
10 persistent cancer myths debunked
Google ‘cancer’ and you’ll be faced with millions of web pages. And the number of YouTube videos you find if you look up ‘cancer cure’ is...
Origins of Life ~ What RNA can do?
In the early 1990s, with the invention of in vitro evolution techniques that supported the “breeding” of RNAs in a test tube, the race...
Origins of Life ~ Molecular cooperation?
Of course, a primordial environment that could support RNA synthesis no doubt also spawned many other organic compounds—for example,...
The Origins of Life ~ Spontaneous synthesis?
RNA is suspected to have been an early lifelike molecule on Earth in part because of its supreme importance to modern life. RNA polymers...
The Origins of Life ~ Pure RNA world?
Summary Most scientists believe that ribonucleic acid played a key role in the origin of life on Earth, but the versatile molecule isn’t...
Predicting Treatment Response to a Rapid Antidepressant
Brain activity during specific tasks may predict how well patients with major depressive disorder respond to the experimental...
BioFrontiers researchers uncover new target for cancer research
BioFrontiers Institute scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Tom Cech and Leslie Leinwand, detailed a new target for...
