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Researchers engineer bacterial CRISPR-Cas13 to knock down RNA in mammalian cells.

Chemistry Nobel goes to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson. 

The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines. 

Mice receiving the treatment produced their own monoclonal antibodies and survived infection with the life-threatening pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Young talks with The Scientist about studying circadian rhythms in fruit flies, the applications of his work beyond Drosophila, and winning the prize. 

A basic curiosity about how life works led the Brandeis University molecular biologist to discover how our bodies keep time. 

Researchers use gold nanoparticles to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 and correct a point mutation in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 

The award in Physiology or Medicine goes to chronobiologists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young.

Researchers explore genetic engineering to produce super-tough fibers.

Some researchers suggest that providing experimental animals with more-natural living conditions not only benefits the organisms, but the data they generate as well.

By investigating the science behind “seeing” with sound, researchers hope to help blind individuals independently navigate the world.

Researchers suggest that the receptors can control early labor contractions.