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How bacteria hijack viruses to shuffle their own DNA
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (896+ words) When you think of viruses, you probably think of flu-like symptoms and quarantines. Humankind has suffered from viral diseases ranging from smallpox to COVID-19, hantavirus and Ebola since the dawn of recorded history. However, all living organisms that are susceptible…...
A Small Molecular Module Helps Time Development
11+ hour, 12+ min ago (307+ words) | Newswise Newswise A Small Molecular Module Helps Time Development Newswise — For an animal to develop normally, cells must not only become the right types, they must do so at the right time. In the worm C. elegans, the protein LIN28 has…...
An Atlas for a Future Free of Disease
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1236+ words) Managing Editor’s Note: We’re in the early stages of a historic IPO season… But opportunities in private companies ahead of the IPO are often inaccessible to everyday investors. Wall Street rakes in the lion’s share while everyone else gets left…...
Cellectis Announces Strategic Transformation To In Vivo Gene Editing Company
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (337+ words) NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cellectis (the “Company”) (Euronext Growth: ALCLS – NASDAQ: CLLS), a pioneer in gene editing, announced that on September 11, 2026, the board of directors approved a strategic transformation to become an in vivo gene editing company focused on…...
Unlocking cell surface protein research with site-specific labeling
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (900+ words) BioSpace...
Your Jawbone Could Reveal Your Sex With Over 90 Percent Accuracy, New Study
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...
Chemotherapy Speeds One Aging Marker in Breast Cancer but Leaves Epigenetic
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (520+ words) A new study is challenging one of the most common assumptions in the fast-growing field of biological aging research: that the different blood tests used to measure how fast a person is aging are, at some level, measuring the same…...
Engineered E. coli swarms record chemical and light inputs in visible
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...
New Sequencing Method Maps RNA Isoforms Across Brain Cells With Single-Cell
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (529+ words) Every cell in the brain carries essentially the same genome, yet the same gene can produce a startling variety of RNA molecules. Through a process called alternative splicing, segments of a gene’s transcript can be included, skipped, or rearranged, generating…...
Seaweed-Derived Coating Matches Heparin at Keeping Blood From Clotting
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (628+ words) A coating built from red seaweed could soon replace one of medicine’s most indispensable yet most fragile ingredients....