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The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 ...

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We are repeating this editorial, originally published in January this year, as an appeal to Nigerian experts to rein in their ...

President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, has appeared on numerous wellness and right-wing ...

Organ transplant is a potentially lifesaving medical intervention, but there is a critical lack of donor organs. Even in a wealthy country like the US, there are about 100,000 people on the waiting l ...

PIC's gene-edited pigs are highly resistant to one of the most harmful viruses affecting pig populations worldwide today.

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John Sedbrook grew up on a small farm in southern Wisconsin that set the foundation for his later interest in plant genetics.

Jiarui Nie, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health, is exploring how gold nanoparticles injected into ...

Genetic mutation in mice . To figure out what this gene mutation does, the researchers used mice. They made mice that had the ...