Scientists create artificial life from chemicals, and it eats, grows, and divides like the real thing

Scientists at the University of Minnesota have engineered "SpudCell," a lab-made entity from lifeless chemicals that mimics ...

Bacteria's 'mix-and-match' code could create new cancer-fighting drugs

A team of researchers at the University of Warwick and Monash University has solved a puzzle that has stumped drug developers ...
Scientific American

How CRISPR could target the body’s epigenome—the software that controls our genes

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

New tool helps uncover rare genetic mutations in common diseases, including Parkinson's

Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that ...

Humans May Soon Be Able to Regrow Body Parts—Including Fingers and Limbs—Thanks to a Groundbreaking Serum

Wait for initial healing: Instead of treating the wound right away, Muneoka and his team waited for the skin to close up and ...
IEEE

Creating Optimal Edit Metric Codes using a Genetic Algorithm

Abstract: Implementing error correcting codes is a challenging problem in information theory and the search for optimal codes, those of maximum size, has been the ...

This 2-year-old was born deaf. Now he can hear thanks to a new gene therapy

Otarmeni, a surgically delivered drug developed by Regeneron, recently received accelerated FDA approval to treat a rare, ...
Utah Public Radio

Could cave bacteria help cure cancer? A USU discovery suggests they might

Utah State University scientists recently unveiled a new type of CRISPR biotechnology with the ability to selectively target and shred the DNA of cancerous cells.