For a long time, scientists believed that much of our DNA was just biologically static, i.e., sequences that didn’t code for anything meaningful. These...
Cancer is one of the most deadly diseases, affecting millions of people worldwide. Chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and immunotherapy have been proven effective at treating...
Employing genetic engineering for the treatment of infectious diseases means introducing specific genes that discretely inhibit or block the functions of target genes.
Chronic and especially cardiometabolic diseases are the culmination of multiple risk factors ranging from genetic predispositions and sedentary lifestyles to stress.
E. Charpentier and A. Doudna have made a landmark discovery for the CRISPR/Cas 9 method employed in genome editing, and received 2020's Nobel prize in chemistry.
