The Economist16h
Gene editing has put biological research on a new trajectory
When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...
Live Science17h
Invisible DNA lurks everywhere in the environment — and we're on the verge of decoding its secrets
Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...
3D structure of the social amoeba genome sheds light on the transition to multicellularity
Each cell of the human body contains two meters of DNA. The whole secret lies in the intricate three-dimensional arrangement ...