Researchers at Utah State University have reported a previously unrecognised CRISPR immune response in which a bacterial ...

Researchers say discoveries could expand the CRISPR toolbox and lead to more efficient, rapid diagnostic tools for detecting COVID-19, influenza, and RSV.

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

New method uses DNA barcodes for high throughput RNA and protein detection in deep tissue. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 13, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250311121315.htm ...

The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

The COVID-19 pandemic thrust messenger RNA (mRNA) into the spotlight, underscoring its promise as a nimble, programmable platform for delivering genetic instructions directly to cells. The success of ...

Dr. Cech is a biochemist and the author of the forthcoming book “The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets,” from which this essay is adapted. From E=mc² to splitting the atom ...

In the early 1980s, David Gilmour, now an emeritus biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Pennsylvania State University, joined the laboratory of geneticist and biochemist John Lis as a ...

Next-generation gene synthesis could be as transformative for several multibillion-dollar industries as the semiconductor. Over the past 60 years researchers have spent a great deal of time and money ...