A microscopic worm that has no kidneys is helping Rutgers scientists understand a genetic change suspected of causing a serious inherited kidney disease.

SCIENTISTS have uncovered why the meningitis B outbreak in Kent that killed two earlier this year was so deadly – warning it ...

One sponge species is so unique that scientists created an entirely new genus to classify it. Another represents a group ...

A wave of epigenetic therapies is offering hope as ways to cure chronic hepatitis B — a lingering liver infection that is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and affects more than 250 million people ...

It's been a disappointing couple of years for shareholders of biotechnology outfit CRISPR Therapeutics ( CRSP -1.33%). This ...

A few weeks ago, Emily Plumb sat with her daughter Cleo on her lap at their home in northeast Wisconsin, swaying and humming a song. That wasn't unusual. What happened ...

CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural immune system in ...

A research team from South Korea has revealed the specific mechanisms behind the onset of psoriasis by combining large-scale genomic data from more than 1.1 million people with advanced single-cell ...

Chronic stress from people's everyday lives may be causing lasting structural changes to the heart, harming health and reducing life expectancy.

Understanding gene regulation may be key to interpreting human disease genetics. Genes are regulated in part by stretches of ...

OpenSpec, a lightweight framework for sharing specifications with AI coding agentsPublished: 2026-09-16T23:06:39+00:00URL: IT/InternetTags: OpenSpec, Specification Management, AI Coding, Development ...

CRISPR-Cas provides RNA-mediated adaptive immunity, but how its first RNA-guided effector arose is unclear. In this study, we report the discovery of Viral Interference Programmable Repeat (VIPR) ...