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Title: CRISPR/Cas-mediated APOC3 Knockout as a One-time Treatment for Severe Hypertriglyceridemia Presenters: Alan Brooks, PhD, Senior Vice President of Research at Metagenomi Date/time: Monday, ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

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Ribosomes, the protein factories of the cell, are essential for all living organisms. They bind to mRNA and move along the ...

Yet Crick was not afraid to be wrong. Before settling on the double helix, he proposed a triple one. He published an ...

Langhorne, would like to see Pennsylvania join other states in collecting samples from a much wider group of people with ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

The 2025 Research Innovation Grants are supporting projects focused on biomarkers, risk factors, and treatments for ALS.

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Boston startup Bystro AI believes the mail-in genetic tests used by millions to trace their ancestry could also help people ...