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Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

A recent study highlights how DNA microarray technology enables high-throughput gene analysis, supporting variation detection, expression ...

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...

The code of life is now editable and the question humanity must answer in the 2020s is not whether we can rewrite it—but whether we should, and for whom.

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

An international research team at the University of Hong Kong has discovered a human protein known as ANKLE1, which is ...