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 ...
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 ...

Decoding how cells choose to become muscles or neurons

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.
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 ...