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

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 ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

Tumors were eradicated in 30% of mice receiving cGAS LNPs injected into the tumor, in combination with immune checkpoint blockade.

The host cell system is a critical determinant of recombinant protein quality and yield, with direct influence on protein folding and post-translational modification factors that shape the ...

It's estimated that nearly 30% of people who try cannabis will go on to develop a substance use disorder associated with it. Strong predictors include how often a person uses it, and whether they have ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated cardiomyopathy) and muscle weakness (muscular dystrophies). Many of these diseases ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- When Maureen Brainard-Barnes' skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside scrub near Long Island's Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, there was hardly any physical evidence ...

It has been 41 years since Darlene Hulse was killed. The cold case unit of the Indiana State Police need your help solving such cases. New DNA technology has rapidly improved over the past 20 years.