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CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
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How CRISPR patent issues block Indian farmers from accessing biotech benefits
Increasingly, agricultural scientists in Asia and Africa are using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop disease-resistant, high-yield crop…
CRISPR helps brain stem cells regain youth in mice
Brain stem cells (artificially coloured) give rise to neurons in young individuals, but that ability fades with advancing…
Twenty years of Addgene
DNA-based materials ready for shipment from the repository Addgene, a service that helps scientists to share plasmid tools.Credit:…
how a molecule went from bit player to star of the show
mRNA technology was the foundation of one vaccine that helped to quell the COVID-19 pandemic.Credit: Davide Pischettola/NurPhoto/Getty The…
How do fish know where a sound comes from? Scientists have an answer
Download the Nature Podcast 19 June 2024 In this episode: 00:46 How light touches are sensed during sex…
researchers can help to shepherd them to market
More than 30,000 people in the United States alone have already received personalized CART-T-cell therapy for cancer.Credit: Qilai…
Hope, despair and CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life
When researcher Arkasubhra Ghosh finally met Uditi Saraf, he hoped that there was still a chance to save…
CRISPR improves a crop that feeds billions
Nature, Published online: 11 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01701-5 The gene-editing system, normally used to disrupt a gene, is applied…
How bioinformatics led one scientist home to Lithuania
Juozas Gordevičius says that Lithuania has a large pool of scientific talent.Credit: Asta Balčiūnaitė-Gordevičienė Voices from Lithuania In…
A snapshot of Lithuania’s life-sciences landscape
Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, will be home to Europe’s largest biotechnology hub.Credit: Getty Voices from Lithuania In May, Lithuania…