The faint glow of a jellyfish revealed a molecule that would change science. Known as green fluorescent protein (GFP), it ...

This Research Topic is proposed in collaboration with the 5th edition of the JRC Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in ...

Editas Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDIT), a pioneering gene editing company, today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed-in-part and vacated-in-part the Patent Trial ...

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea.

The human body and its organs are composed of a wide variety of cell types. Although all cells contain the same genes, they ...

Mice whose MTCH2 proteins were silenced, or deleted, developed increased athletic capacity – they grew more muscle fibers, ...

A recent study marks the first reported instance of generative AI designing synthetic molecules that can successfully control gene expression in healthy mammalian cells. As a proof-of-concept, the ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...

Humans heal skin injuries significantly more slowly than certain primates. Evolutionary changes may explain the trade-off.