Mississippi State University’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering is naming Adam Smith, a seasoned higher education leader with more than 13 years of academic experience, as its new associate ...

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the future of gene editing.

Researchers have engineered a new class of adenine base editors that reduce unwanted bystander mutations by two to three ...

Biomedical engineers from Brown University have developed a new wound dressing material that releases antibiotic drugs only when harmful bacteria are present in a wound. In the new study, published in ...

Extremophile microbes that flourish in conditions lethal to most life are moving from scientific curiosities to potential tools for climate action and astrobiology. New work on deep ocean communities, ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new type of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) that could one day serve as a universal immunotherapy for cancers that form solid tumors. The particle delivers both mRNA that ...

Extremophiles may well be tiny, but they are making a huge contribution to the health of our planet and our lives. A new review of these microorganisms, published in the journal Frontiers in ...

Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to detect ...

What makes NCT so exciting is that it focuses on the underlying problem: how the body converts fuel into energy.” — Damien Perriman, Chief Commercial Officer of eXoZymes LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES ...

From her laboratory in California, the engineer with Latin roots has driven advances that are transforming biotechnology and ...

A bone-like composite developed at EPFL uses naturally occurring enzymes to accelerate mineralization through an ...

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient’s cells. However, most genetic disorders are caused by dozens or even thousands of ...