New gene therapy modalities, such as CRISPR guide RNA (single guide ribonucleic acid [sgRNA]) and messenger RNA (mRNA), ...

In principle, mRNA vaccines are ideal for health emergencies as they can be quickly mass produced using a template. The problem is that current cell-based template production methods take too long, ...

While some of the initial zeal around localized vaccine production in Africa has waned since the height of the COVID-19 ...

When Xiao Wang applied to faculty jobs, many of the institutions where she interviewed thought her research proposal - to ...

In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...

On Friday, February 7, a hearing took place in the Montana state legislature on a bill that would ban the use of mRNA ...

Protein synthesis is vital for life, translating genetic information from DNA to functional proteins through transcription ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing ...

Africa’s EVA Pharma, France’s DNA Script, and Belgium’s Quantoom Biosciences have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which ...

Human genes that encode proteins often contain non-coding segments known as introns. Removing introns is crucial for the proper expression of genetic information. Understanding how our cells ...