Tumor cells rapidly divide by usurping a metabolic trick from normal cell development.
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Tumor cells rapidly divide by usurping a metabolic trick from normal cell development.
A variety of genetic strategies to counter insect-borne diseases are close to maturity.
Scientists uncover the identities of anonymous DNA donors using freely available web searches.
Researchers identify a chromosome in ants that influences colony social structure and, much like the mammalian Y sex chromosome, doesn’t recombine.
Scientists use virus-free gene therapy on patient-derived stem cells to repair spinal muscular atrophy in mice.
Researchers and biotech companies are bringing a universal flu vaccine closer to reality.
Resource-limited countries are in desperate need of better diagnostic tests for life-threatening illnesses.
Reprogrammed stem cells are not attacked by the immune system, or are they?
Researchers uncover weekly and monthly rhythms of sodium retention and excretion in participants of space simulations.
Despite decades of work, compounds in frog skins have failed to yield new antibiotics. Why?