Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...
When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...
Folic acid, also known as vitamin B9, is an important B-vitamin with many vital functions in the human body. It was discovered in the early 1930s when an English scientist isolated a compound from ...
If you're on the phone with someone, a babbling newborn can be very cute but they can also be distracting for the person on the other end of your call. If you have an iPhone, you can enable a hidden ...
New imaging reveals a built-in safeguard that allows B cell populations to rapidly expand in germinal centers without introducing deleterious mutations. Germinal centers are high-speed evolution ...
Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...
With a growing number of exosome-based delivery vehicles advancing into the clinic for therapeutics and vaccines, more effective isolation and separation strategies are needed. Finnish researchers ...
The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...
High-security prisons introduced in recent years in Turkey fail to meet Mandela Rules on prisoners’ right to sunlight and fresh air, according to human rights advocates.
Ultimately, Mars will test our biology more than our technology. Every gram of muscle preserved, every synapse protected, every cell repaired will be a triumph of physiology. Space may dismantle the ...
Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...
When a handful of  Red Onion State Prison inmates burned themselves in late 2024 amid allegations of racism and abuse, the ...