For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels. Scientists wanted to know more about how ...

Radiation therapy is a powerful tool for fighting cancer, but it comes with painful side effects. About 60% of cancer ...

Johns Hopkins scientists develop mRNA "booster" as potential new way to treat rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels ...

Researchers tested computational predictions by peering into condensates using novel super-resolution microscopy methods.

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems.

Researchers have identified an ancient RNA-guided system that can target DNA, potentially expanding the genome-editing toolbox.

Janelia researchers developed an innovative new technique – cycleHCR -- that uses a novel DNA barcode system to track ...

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

Abstract Genome-wide identification of binding profiles for DNA-binding proteins from the limited number of intracellular pathogens in infection ...