Within the cell, NOVA1’s job is to bind to RNA to regulate alternative splicing—a process by which exons from the same gene are assembled in different ... to determine whether the human NOVA1 impacted ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major ...

Colossal Biosciences is attempting to do something that many of us only thought was possible in the movies, and the ...

By Robert Clark, TIME contributor Two young wolves named Romulus and Remus are engaging in typical puppy behavior: playing, wrestling, and exploring. However, these 6-month-old pups stand out due to ...

Heidelberg biochemists and structural biologists from Shanghai unravel the roles of two key regulatory factors in mRNA ...

Knocking out a single gene reprograms part of the large intestine to function like the nutrient-absorbing small intestine. In ...

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In a lab at Queen Mary University of London, a mouse was born whose existence defied conventional biology. It carried within ...

The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the USC Stem ...

By Gina Kolata Researchers have corrected a disease-causing gene mutation with a single infusion carrying a treatment that precisely targeted the errant gene. This was the first time a mutated ...