Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Splicing DNA in petri dish. The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to ...

Scientists are very close to snipping inherited genetic diseases out of human offspring using a gene-editing technique called CRISPR. A study demonstrating this technique was published in the journal ...

Researchers created atomic-level models of the spike protein that plays a key role in COVID-19 infection and immunity, revealing how the protein bends and moves as it seeks to engage receptors. When ...

Professor Zhou's research group focuses on developing and applying new technologies to visualize spatial and temporal distributions of chemical modifications in the mammalian transcriptome at ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When the coronavirus causing COVID-19 infects human cells, the cell’s protein-processing machinery makes modifications to the spike protein that render it more flexible and mobile, ...