Scientists from Stanford University created the microscopic electrical charges in a lab and mixed them with gases found in ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

The author is looking forward to seeing how Beam Therapeutics would do in their clinical trials of single-base DNA editing.

Armed with new proof-of-concept data showing that its in vivo base-editing therapy BEAM-302 can correct the gene mutation in ...

The expansion of clones with distinct SERPINA1 somatic mutants in the livers of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT) patients is consistent with convergent evolution. These variants interfere ...

Single-cell transcriptomics has revolutionized the study of cellular diversity and function by enabling gene expression ...

which can be used to convert one nucleotide base into another without cutting both strands of DNA, unlike other technologies like CRISPR/Cas9. BEAM-101 modifies haematopoietic stem cells to ...

In the early 1990s, the FBI had begun exploring STR markers, whose short, two- to six-base pair ... fragments of DNA and recovering information from that,” said Butler. These miniSTRs, along with ...

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

Sunburns and aging skin are obvious effects of exposure to harmful UV rays, tobacco smoke and other carcinogens. But the effects aren't just skin deep. Inside the body, DNA is literally being torn ...

Assembling DNA nanostructures at more moderate temperatures opens up the possibility of using the structures in biomedical ...

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...