Scientists engineered T cells to protect instead of kill, potentially enabling targeted treatments for autoimmune disease and ...

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Today’s extinction rates are sky-high. But scientists debate if that’s sufficient evidence to conclude that Earth is undergoing a mass extinction event—or whether that’s even a helpful designation.

The normal functions of peptides that aggregate in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s have been largely overlooked by scientists, but some argue that they are critical for understanding the ...

Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

From foundational technologies to cutting-edge microfluidics, scientists use the latest wastewater surveillance techniques to ...

A CRISPR-based system that erases itself from fly populations may offer a safer approach to tackling insecticide resistance ...

Large consortia-led projects such as ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) have made great strides in identifying various functional elements of the genome. These include enhancers, activators, and ...

Profiling cells from ovarian endometriosis revealed signaling interactions that may sustain legion growth, highlighting ...

For an hour a day, five days a week, mice in Hiroshi Maejima’s physiology lab at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, hit the treadmill. The researcher’s goal in having the animals follow the ...

A CRISPR-based system that erases itself from fly populations may offer a safer approach to tackling insecticide resistance while minimizing ecological risks.