DNA phosphorothioate modification is a distinctive epigenetic alteration in which a non‐bridging oxygen atom within the DNA sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced by ...

Scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) and collaborating institutions have developed a DNA-editing method that introduces small chemical modifications at ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Full Circles Therapeutics, a leader in next-generation genome engineering, announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ...

A common flu virus could be used to overcome patients' resistance to certain cancer drugs -- and improve how those drugs kill cancer cells, according to new research from Queen Mary University of ...

Humans have selectively bred animals and crops since the beginning of agriculture, but advances in biotechnology have provided genetic tools to select specific traits. First applied to animals in the ...

Malaria remains one of the deadliest diseases in the world, with nearly 600,000 deaths recorded in 2023, the vast majority occurring in Africa. To combat this ongoing crisis, scientists at Imperial ...

Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from ...

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki: Pasteurisation is the reason that we have large-scale cheesemaking today. And like most large industries, it needs a lot of resources. Text on screen: One kilogram of cheese uses ...