The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," which enables researchers to better understand how human cells function and ...

Kanazawa University, report in ACS Nano, how proteins in cells can be controllably activated through heating, an effect that ...

In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in ...

The secret to cellular youth may depend on keeping the nucleolus—a condensed structure inside the nucleus of a cell—small, according to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The findings were ...

New research published in Immunity by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that, in mice, the toxic tumor ...

Made Scientific, a leading U.S.-based cell therapy contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), and Basilard BioTech, a Southern California biotechnology company pioneering novel ...

Telomere damage drives T cell exhaustion. Antioxidants restored their cancer-fighting strength in mice. Tumor environments place heavy stress on immune cells that fight cancer. Limited oxygen, ...

Tumors are stressful places for cancer-fighting immune cells. Low oxygen, high acid levels, and other stressors put strain on ...