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Energy healer Jeanne “Bean” Murdock will provide a free presentation, titled ‘Turn off the Gene’, at Community Library of ...

A promising method to treat blindness is to implant healthy light-sensitive cells into failing eyes. But these cell therapies — which have been in development for at least three decades — often fail ...

Reverse genetics systems allow the functions of genes to be determined by changing an individual gene and observing the result, creating what is known as a recombinant virus. They are powerful tools ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these mutations cause serious diseases that pass down only through mothers. They ...

Norovirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. However, research progress into antiviral treatments and vaccines has been hindered ...

Collaborative research defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription factors determine which genetic programs will drive cell growth and maturation. The method, ...