KATMAP: A new way to understand and predict gene splicing

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Reactivating a fetal gene enables adult heart cells to regenerate after injury

Around the globe, heart disease remains one of the top causes of death. Once patients begin to suffer from serious heart ...
Scientific American

Gene Editing Helped One Baby—Could It Help Thousands?

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach ...

Molecular dynamics simulations use atomistic force field to capture RNA folding with high accuracy

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is one of life's most versatile molecules, with roles going far beyond being a messenger of genetic ...
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences - University at Buffalo

Uncovering the Rules of DNA’s Hidden Language

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, Who Discovered Molecular ‘Scissors’ to Cut DNA, Dies at 94

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...
The Debrief

Colossal Biosciences Advances Its De-Extinction Efforts with Acquisition of Cloning Company Viagen

Colossal Biosciences has expanded its efforts to save animals currently on the brink with its acquisition of the cloning ...