If the United States abandons mRNA, it will not simply be forfeiting a public health advantage. It will be ceding a strategic asset. In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology.
New approach finds ‘parent-of-origin’ effects in more than a dozen genes — without the need for parental data.
Contrary to long-standing assumptions, human egg cells stay pristine for decades not by ramping up waste disposal, but by dialing it down.
From viruses to humans, life makes microproteins that have evaded discovery until now.
Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.
Scientists deploy self-splicing protein subunits to insert strange new additions into target proteins.
The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns.
New research reveals how, by following different rules in the process of learning, neurons can perform multiple functions in parallel. This may have implications for human health and society, including new ways to design artificial neural networks.
Without enforcement mechanisms, the Biological Weapons Convention risks leaving the world “completely unprepared”
Breach of Kakhovka Dam now threatens seasonal floods thick with toxic heavy metals, other pollutants
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