Under the threat of climate change and geopolitical tensions related to fossil fuels, the world faces an urgent need to find ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Researchers at Utah State University revealed new details about CRISPR immune system defenses, such as Cas12a3 systems, that ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

A new chip-based quantum memory uses 3D-printed “light cages” to store light in atomic vapor with high precision. Quantum ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

We usually assume that tissue folding (the process that creates organs, embryos, and the deep ridges of the human brain) ...

Refrigerators are the main tool of modern food storage and have become almost the sole reference for the freshness and safety ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as promising alternative for next generation photovoltaics due to their superior power conversion efficiencies (record currently at 34.9% for ...

Xenobots made from frog cells show surprising autonomy, raising questions about a possible third state of life beyond life ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.