The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

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The new molecules selectively reduced inflammatory signaling in human immune cells without affecting other immune pathways. Treatment with the molecules also reduced inflammation in mice with the ...

Illumina has unveiled a database of genomic alterations, called the Billion Cell Atlas, that can be used to identify and ...

Claire Huntington, a biotechnology major and class assistant, demonstrates how to apply a sample into gel in the Design to Data program within the Genome Center's Siegel Lab taught by Ashley Vater.

Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive ...

For the first time, scientists have answered a longstanding question in cell biology about a partnership of proteins called ...

Metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes (T2D), obesity, and metabolic syndrome, are a growing threat to global public health. More than 537 million adults currently live with T2D, and this ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

Bronwyn has always loved words and animals, and she has the journalism and zoology degrees to prove it. After more than 20 years as a writer and editor, the former music journalist went back to ...