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5+ hour, 6+ min ago  (287+ words) TAA-T therapy skips gene editing entirely, instead selecting and multiplying T cells that already recognise tumour proteins. Think of it as casting a wider net instead of throwing a single spear. The ReMIND trial's results are preliminary but striking, particularly…...

35+ min ago  (328+ words) Tetraspanins are four-transmembrane proteins best known for organizing cell membranes into specialized microdomains that recruit lipids and partner proteins. Over the past few years, several tetraspanins have also been shown to form ordered polymer assemblies, raising the possibility that these…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago  (257+ words) Traffic lights aren’t the only things that can shift from red to green. A team at Hiroshima University reports that the color of perilla can be reprogrammed using CRISPR-Cas9—while also rewiring the plant’s underlying chemical machinery. The result is…...

6+ hour, 16+ min ago  (324+ words) That hardening is already happening with the new embryo gene editing protocol. Media outlets have described it as enabling meticulous and precise gene editing in embryos. Such language implies that heritable human genome editing is – or soon will be – safe....

8+ hour ago  (257+ words) The research helps explain a long-standing biological mystery: why cyanobacteria invest energy in forming flocs despite the apparent cost to their growth. The findings suggest the behaviour is an evolved defense mechanism that could have implications extending from microbial ecology…...

2+ hour, 47+ min ago  (432+ words) Intergroup conflict is common across the animal kingdom, shaping how social species survive and reproduce. A new review in Trends in Ecology & Evolution argues that many animals do not simply respond after a fight begins. Instead, they run a hidden…...

13+ hour, 4+ min ago  (341+ words) For the first time, astronomers have detected a complex four-carbon sugar molecule, erythrulose, in the interstellar gas clouds near the center of the Milky Way. In a groundbreaking discovery that redraws the boundaries of astrobiology, an international team of astronomers…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (48+ words) How did life emerge from a lifeless planet? This article explores the scientific quest to understand abiogenesis, from the formation of organic molecules on early Earth to the RNA World hypothesis and the emergence of protocells. It examines how simple…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (310+ words) Climate change and disease pressure are making gene-editing increasingly important to the future success of the banana sector, argues agri-scientist James Dale Gene editing has big potential for future varietal development in bananas The two dominant types of Cavendish, Grand…...

14+ hour, 47+ min ago  (385+ words) For the first time, scientists have detected a sugar molecule floating in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the centre of the Milky Way. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggests that compounds fundamental to life can…...