Stress or infection may prompt viruses hidden in our genome to stagger back to life, contributing to some cases of multiple sclerosis, diabetes and schizophrenia
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Cas9 editing has been used in vivo for the first time as part of a treatment to restore sight to those with an inherited form of congenital blindness.
A powerful set of molecular tools helps synthetic biologists to assemble DNA of different sizes, from the gene to the chromosome scale.
The 2nd Summer School of Mikrobiokosmos entitled ‘Advances in understanding the multiple role of microbiome in agro-food, energy production, environmental protection and human health’. Deadline for expression of interest April 15th.
In a world first, scientists have discovered a new type of antibiotic using artificial intelligence (AI).
Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable.
This Advanced Course will focus on the “Molecular targets for anti-aging interventions”. Aging, age-related disorders and anti-aging interventions are the subjects of general importance. (source: antiaging2020.febsevents.org/ )
They found it buried in the muddy shores of the Potomac River more than three decades ago: a strange “sediment organism” that could do things nobody had ever seen before in bacteria.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 years, and today he told the nation’s premier scientific gathering that advances in artificial intelligence and gene editing could accelerate those improvements exponentially in the years ahead.
Scientists have identified an enigmatic virus whose genome seems to be almost entirely new to science, populated by unfamiliar genes that have never before been documented in viral research.