Nature

Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely?

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...
eLife

Automated genome mining predicts structural diversity and taxonomic distribution of peptide metallophores across bacteria

This important and compelling study establishes a robust computational and experimental framework for the large-scale identification of metallophore biosynthetic clusters. The work advances beyond ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Scientists uncover hidden ‘geometric code’ that helps DNA compute and remember

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...
Brandeis University

Professor Steven Henikoff receives 55th Rosenstiel Award for research on genome organization and gene expression

The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...