A widely used weedkiller may be giving dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria an unexpected advantage in the fight for survival. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributes to an estimated 1.1 million ...

It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

Mammalian cell lines are crucial in the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins, vaccines and other clinically relevant drugs. A number of different lines are relied upon, but three in ...

We spoke to David Klenerman, co-developer of sequencing by synthesis, to find out how his work heralded the next generation ...

For the first time, researchers have used a genome editing technique called base editing to identify a master gene that is essential for human embryo development. Marking the first application of base ...

A new study has demonstrated that colon cancer cells may change identity to metastasize. Loss of GATA6, a transcription factor that controls which genes are turned on or off, can reprogram colorectal ...

A tropical butterfly has evolved an ingenious anti-aging strategy by delaying the aging process enabling it to live far longer than its closest relatives. Found throughout the tropical rainforests of ...

A novel ‘asthma-on-a-chip’ platform breathes new life into study of the condition, offering hope for future treatments. University of Pennsylvania (PA, USA) engineers have developed a human ...

Using human cerebral organoids, researchers have revealed how Ebola virus persists in the brain. An international collaboration led by researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine ...

Precision DNA editing targets root cause of severe childhood epilepsy in a preclinical study. Researchers from The Jackson Laboratory (JAX; ME, USA) have used gene ...