To this day, no one knows for certain what caused the liver and kidney disease that led to Ludwig van Beethoven's untimely ...

Older methods for genetic engineering required scientists to find or design new proteins to target different sites in the genome, a technically demanding and labor-intensive task. The RNA ...

With the exception of red blood cells, which contain no nucleus and no nuclear DNA, every one of these cells contains the human genome -- a string of three billion A's, C's, G's, and T's.

A research team has completed a high-quality chromosome-scale assembly of the Chuanhonghua 1 safflower genome. This work ...

In May, the company announced it spent $100 million to acquire Edico Genome, a San Diego startup that makes gear to speed up the processing of bioinformation. The buyout strengthens Illumina’s ...

There is growing enthusiasm in the scientific community about the prospect of mapping and sequencing the human genome, a monumental project that will have far-reaching consequences for medicine, ...

But the leap of the H5N1 influenza strain, widespread among wild fowl and a regular threat to domestic poultry, into cattle ...

That wastes money, time and resources. “[Explore] will de-risk all of those things.” About 90% of startups eventually fail, ...

These data are the first demonstration of therapeutic payload delivery with an ANV vector and represent an initial investigation into the potential use of this novel platform to treat eye diseases ...

The Vatican recently proclaimed a “Declaration of Infinite Dignity” (Declaration). It states that people who are not ...

Increased serum ALT level (ie, ALT levels > 2 x upper limit of normal [ULN] on 1 occasion, or ALT > 1.5 x ULN on at least 2 monthly determinations), as a biochemical marker of ongoing ...