For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their ...

When blood cancer in children progresses particularly aggressively, it is often due to a genetic defect: a gene fusion, such ...

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In new research from Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China, a gene-edited strain of Fusarium venenatum produced richer, more ...

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Two-day-old baby KJ Muldoon only had a few months left to live. Diagnosed with a rare and fatal genetic disease, his life ...

SMART researchers discover novel phage DNA modifications that offer new hope against antibiotic-resistant superbugsA groundbreaking discovery reveals a unique way phages modify their DNA with ...

Since the middle of the 20th century, antibiotics have been among the greatest successes in medicine. They save millions of ...

Some viruses, known as bacteriophages, only infect bacterial cells, often destroying those bacteria in the process. Bacteria, in turn, can develop defenses against these viruses. Bacteriophages or ...

Prophages, viruses integrated into bacterial or archaeal genomes, can carry cargo that confers beneficial phenotypes to the host. The porcine gut microbiota constitutes a complex, dynamic, and ...

As summer draws to a close and the academic year picks up again, we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight five exciting lab methods published in 2025, covering cell culture, AI, spectroscopy, ...