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Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...

A new study proposes that autism arises when genetic vulnerability, an early environmental trigger, and prolonged activation of the cellular stress response align during critical developmental windows ...

The three-hit model, developed from more than a decade of systems biology research, proposes that autism develops when three ...

Karthik and her team aimed to use CRISPR as a way to identify and isolate a protein generated by the bacteria that cause Lyme ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...