The first sprayable insecticide made of RNA can target and kill ravenous Colorado potato beetles while sparing most ...

Farmers may soon be able to reprogramme their crops to withstand pests, diseases and climate stress using a microbial ...

Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...

They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.

MIT researchers have developed a more precise form of prime editing, a genome-editing method that corrects faulty genes without making double-stranded DNA cuts. By ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...

Department of Informatics and Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic CZ-OPENSCREEN: National Infrastructure for Chemical Biology, Faculty of Chemical ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Aptamers, single-stranded nucleic acids that fold into unique three-dimensional shapes ...