Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

“Instead of the genome acting as a storage bin for information ... Across every tissue in the human body, this process is associated with diseases of aging like cancer, Alzheimer’s, atherosclerosis, ...

has raised funds with the aim of repairing the human genome. (Whether such a plan would ever be feasible across broad swaths of cells is another matter: “I don’t think you can get rid of the mutations ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of ...

"The human genome contains a myriad of CREs ... stem cells (a type of artificial stem cell made from a normal body cell). The study revealed several key insights. Across the three cell types ...

A new Weizmann Institute study identified all of the proteins in a stool sample – those from the microbiome, the human body and food – revealing the hidden secrets of the intestines and their impact o ...

The mouse model in the study is reportedly quite different as it allows scientists to observe the aging process in a whole organism.

Chemists have found a new way to determine 3D genome structures, using generative AI, that can predict thousands of genome structures in minutes, making it much speedier than existing methods for ...

Once inside human cells, HIV integrates the viral genome into that of the human host. Ultimately, the virus uses our body's machinery to produce copies of itself and spread infection. The HIV-1 ...

"The laboratory rat has been a critical model for studying human health and ... check the accuracy of the genome and study how genes behave in different parts of the body, like the brain, liver ...