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 ...

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.

Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute found that rotating waves of brain activity help restore focus after distractions. In ...

A groundbreaking FDA approval offers the first-ever treatment for ultra-rare Thymidine Kinase 2 Deficiency (TK2d). KYGEVVI, a ...

The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain.

The alleged stalker of the McCann family does not match a DNA sample from Madeleine's pillowcase taken from her home in the days after she disappeared, a forensic expert has told a court. Jurors at ...

Julia Wandelt allegedly turned up to the McCann home and repeatedly called them to say she was their missing daughter DNA recovered from the pillow case of Madeleine McCann does not match that of her ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a "jumping gene" or ...

The alleged stalker of the McCann family does not match a DNA sample from Madeleine’s pillowcase taken from her home in the days after she disappeared, a forensic expert has told a court. Jurors at ...