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A new platform developed at Scripps Research enables fast, scalable protein evolution. This potentially opens the door to new ...

An experimental gene-editing therapy developed by Crispr Therapeutics is showing promise for treating heart disease.

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James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...

New studies from Arizona State University reveal surprising ways bacteria can move without their flagella—the slender, ...

A switch to a new technology made DNA analysis more accurate at the Bexar County Criminal Investigation Lab, but it also ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...