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CRISPR systems are found in many different bacterial species, and have evolved to protect host cells against infection by viruses....

Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS — In a recent paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry Yuna Ayala,...

Credit: (Credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize for 2017 has been awarded to two scientists from...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Lung cancer treatment often pairs targeted therapies with genetic alterations driving the disease. This...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Olivier Frey A team headed by scientists from the Department of Biosystems at ETH Zurich in...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 30, 2018–Researchers have described severe, life-threatening toxicity in monkeys and...

Credit: John Dani, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – Stress, defined broadly, is a well-known risk...

Credit: University of Alberta A new University of Alberta study shows that the family risk for asthma–typically passed from moms...

Credit: Jack Kearse, Emory University The Japan Prize Foundation has announced Max D. Cooper, MD, as a laureate of the...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Researchers have found a link between dysregulated tryptophan metabolism and abdominal aortic aneurysm, a life-threatening vascular...

Credit: US National Library of Medicine After three decades of hopes tempered by setbacks, gene therapy–the process of treating a...

Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Santa Monica, CA (January 30, 2018) — Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) announces today a...

Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to...

Credit: American Chemical Society Beans are a versatile, inexpensive staple that can boost essential nutrients in a diet, especially for...

Credit: Newcastle Regional Sleep Service Amsterdam, NL, January 13, 2017 – Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common...

Credit: K Bloem A new study shows that patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune conditions who take the drug...

Credit: Dr Vladimir Lukhtanov Vladimir Lukhtanov, entomologist and evolutionary biologist at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, made a...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Men and women differ in obvious and less obvious ways — for example, in the...

Credit: Jessica Crowell The results of a new study reveal that a professional pest management intervention was no better in...

Credit: Li, Xu, Ye, and Hong et al./Cell Stem Cell 2016 Mouse fetuses injected with the Asian Zika virus strain...