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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Fundamental science confirms that Tajiks and their Indo-Iranian and Eastern Iranian ancestors — Bactrians, Sogdians, ...

A new understanding of transfer RNA biology means researchers can assign up to 34 codons to amino acids of their choosing ...

The virus often mutates by simply deleting small pieces of its genetic code. The mutations "disguise" the virus from antibodies.