Plants Wage Chemical Warfare Against Pathogens, and Scientists Are Learning to Weaponize It
A comprehensive review maps how plants deploy bioactive compounds against pathogens and outlines genetic, nanotech and microbiome strategies to engineer ...
Tag: CRISPR
Bibliometric review finds genome editing missing from Ficus research landscape
A systematic bibliometric analysis of 25 years of Ficus literature shows that only about 11.3 percent of publications address genomic ...
Review finds CRISPR maternal–infant diagnostics not yet clinically ready
A structured review found that CRISPR diagnostics for maternal–infant HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis care remain clinically unready, with HIV ...
The potential of metabolic engineering for sustainable phytosterol production
A 2026 review synthesizes plant, enzyme-engineering and microbial approaches to phytosterol production, including a reported engineered-yeast campesterol titer of 5.88 ...
Mouse study links spinal Hsp90 inhibition to enhanced morphine pain relief through DUSP15 in CGRP neurons
In mice, spinal Hsp90 inhibition enhanced morphine pain relief, and DUSP15 knockdown in CGRP neurons reversed that effect.
Review maps CRISPR-Cas9 advances in editing precision, delivery and therapeutic applications
A 2026 review summarizes advances in CRISPR-Cas9 precision, delivery and primary-cell engineering for genetic diseases and diabetes, while the available ...
Free-Base Editing Delivers Cleaner DNA Changes in Crops
A modular cytidine base editor that separates its Cas9 nickase and deaminase produced fewer unwanted DNA changes in moss and ...
CRISPR tomato line promises cheaper hybrid seeds with visual sterility marker
Tomato breeders may soon retire one of the most tedious rituals in their trade. In a study published in BMC ...
Kidney Aging Enzyme PLA2G15 Emerges as New Target Against Cellular Senescence
Researchers at Amsterdam UMC report that disrupting the lysosomal enzyme PLA2G15 reduces stress-induced senescence and reshapes BMP phospholipid metabolism in ...
Glowing RNA Molecules Light Up Cancer Cells for Precision Oncology
A new review in Molecular Biology Reports surveys how fluorogenic RNA aptamers, engineered RNA strands that switch on fluorescence upon ...
Programmable microfluidic system brings multidimensional health profiling to point-of-care diagnostics
A programmable smartphone-integrated microfluidic platform achieves attomolar sensitivity and over 95 percent accuracy across molecular and protein assays, reframing decentralized ...
How Molecular Pathology Rewrote the Story of Inherited Blood Disorders
A sweeping narrative review charts how molecular genetics turned non-malignant blood disorders into the proving ground for modern diagnostics and ...
Cancer’s Master Switch: New Map Reveals How Tumors Outsmart Immunotherapy
A sweeping new review in Molecular Cancer maps the PD-1/PD-L1 axis from immune evasion mechanisms to next-generation therapeutics, offering a ...
DNA Nanosensors Paired With AI Aim to Catch Brain Inflammation Early
A new review in Results in Chemistry details how programmable DNA nanobiosensors combined with artificial intelligence could enable early detection ...
Antibody Sugar Engineering Meets Real-Time Monitoring to Reshape Biomanufacturing
A new perspective argues that the Fc glycan of monoclonal antibodies should be treated as an intrinsic design variable, integrating ...
Plant immune switches offer new blueprint for engineered disease resistance
A sweeping review maps the transcriptional, post-transcriptional, translational and post-translational switches that could let scientists program broad-spectrum disease resistance into ...
Bacterial Antiviral Enzyme DRT10 Reveals Ancient Evolutionary Link to Human Telomerase
Columbia researchers discovered a bacterial antiviral system called DRT10 that shares an evolutionary origin with telomerase, opening new paths for ...
Sequencing Revolution Races to Rescue the World’s Fruits and Vegetables
A comprehensive new review argues that next-generation sequencing has transformed horticultural crop genomics, but bioinformatics capacity and functional validation, not ...
Bacteria Use a Telomerase-Like Reverse Transcriptase to Fight Off Viruses
Researchers have discovered a bacterial antiviral defense system, DRT10, that synthesizes tandem-repeat DNA through a telomerase-like mechanism, revealing an evolutionary ...
AI and Gene Editing Team Up to Slash the World’s Fruit and Vegetable Waste
A new review in Current Research in Food Science details how artificial intelligence, CRISPR gene editing and RNA interference are ...
