When George Church, PhD, and co-founders established Colossal Biosciences, they envisioned applying their advancements in CRISPR gene editing to the loss of biodiversity, species preservation, and ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers believe they discovered a new type of life form living in the human body that were previously misidentified as viruses. According to a new study from bioRxiv that has ...

In eukaryotic cells, which are found in complex organisms including humans, little membrane-bound organelles carry out various functions. It's been suggested that these organelles, which all have ...

Scientists finally have a way to watch the brain’s most elusive support cells behave ...

Fusion oncoproteins arise when a gene fuses with another gene and acquires new abilities. Such abilities can include the ...

Two research groups have discovered that rare forms of a gene involved in lipid formation might reduce the risk of some heart attacks in people who inherit one of those rare forms. The gene is ...

Students pursuing the Bachelor of Arts degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO) at CU Boulder study both ecology and evolutionary biology. Ecology seeks to understand the processes that ...

Electron micrographs of clusters of JCVI-Syn 3.0 cells magnified about 15,000 times, Credit: Tom Deerinck and Mark Ellisman, of the National Center for Imaging and Microscopy Research at the ...

The grand ideas of synthetic biology — like bringing back the woolly mammoth — seem very far away. But oftentimes I find that ideas that seem futuristic are already around us, like having a cochlear ...

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