As the new UC Davis school year gets underway, Walter Leal a distinguished professor in the department of molecular and ...

A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday ...

Two Indian American scientists — Arvind Murugan and Saad Bhamla — have been named Schmidt Polymaths with six other global ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new ...

Fluorescent proteins can be turned into qubits within cells and could give us a deeper understanding of biology at the ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

These chains come in a wide range of lengths. In humans a typical protein is about 400 amino acids long; some are a lot longer. Molecules of RNA, one of the two nucleic acids, can reach up to 100,000 ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Rewiring the command neurons in the tactile circuit is sufficient to change the behavioral strategy of a whole animal, implying a 'plug-and-play' flexibility in sensorimotor circuits.

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things - including a crucial event that happened ...

Gene editing in plants remains challenging, with the traditional non-homologous end-joining (cNHEJ) repair pathway often ...