Drug development in biotechnology takes time. A lot of time. On average, it takes 10 to 15 years to take a medicine from ...

UC San Diego scientists discover enzyme responsible for scrambling cancer genomes; results could enable new treatments for ...

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which a single chromosome is shattered into pieces and rearranged in a scrambled ...

The recognition is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...

Theresa Walunas, PhD, FAMIA, is an associate professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Microbiology-Immunology and Preventive Medicine in the Division of ...

Lindberg had Parkinson’s disease, the neurologist said, with all the classic symptoms. PD—as the scientists she would meet ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

In recent years, there has been a dramatic rise of innovation in human genomic technology. This has been most notably seen in new and effective genomic ...