The immune system faces a delicate balancing act: it must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained ...

With a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Chi Zhang, ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

Cyclone is a portable gene-switch system that uses acyclovir to reversibly control gene expression with minimal toxicity.

Miyawaki forests first started appearing in Japan in the 1970s. Japan's Factory Location Law of 1973 was established to ...

It must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained enough to avoid attacking the body's own tissues.

Silicon Valley billionaires love to chase extreme health tech. Their next obsession, after dabbling in tech to reverse aging, ...

A newly developed mouse model enables real-time visualization of RNA Polymerase II (RNAP2) during DNA transcription, as ...

Fresh leafy vegetables such as pakchoi rapidly lose quality after harvest due to leaf yellowing and senescence. This study ...

Google has proposed major changes to its business practices to address an EU antitrust case targeting its ad-tech operations.