Editing the genome with high precision
Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute and Rockefeller University have developed a new technique for precisely altering the genomes of living cells by adding or...
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Unlocking New Talents in Nature
Protein engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have tapped into a hidden talent of one of nature's most versatile catalysts. The enzyme cytochrome...
Programmed Immune Stem Cells
The human body contains immune cells programmed to fight cancer and viral infections, but they often have short lifespans and are not numerous enough to...
No universal code for gene control
UC San Diego bioengineers have dashed the hopes of scientists looking for an easy way to determine how genes are turned off and on by...
Tufts Bioengineers to Research Robots of the Future
A five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to Tufts University will help launch an interdisciplinary graduate program to enable scientists and engineers to create...
A Simpler Path To a Catalyst
Bioengineers at ETH Zurich developed a new synthesis procedure for a catalyst. This procedure may be used for the large-scale production of, for instance,...
A cell for a cell
If you ever need to isolate a single bacterial cell, why not build it a prison cell? This is the approach that Bryan Kaehr and...
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