The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...

Greenland has changed quickly in the past 25 years. Along with new foods, jobs and habits has come a sharp rise in type 2 ...

For more than a century, scientists have argued over what really drives cancer, yet the pieces of the puzzle have rarely fit ...

The tools for advancing our understanding of basic biology have become increasingly capable of taking on large, ...

No doubt the New Zealand Gene Technology Bill, currently awaiting its Second Reading, which will liberalise decisions about gene technology experiments and place them in the hands of a single ...

The number of deaths caused by prion diseases reaches about 30,000 annually. Only 5 months pass from the diagnosis of seemingly healthy patients to the fatal outcome of this neurodegenerative ...

A new FDA pathway could speed bespoke gene therapies, but key questions over scope and commercial viability remain.

World leaders and experts urge a global AGI ban until safety is proven, unpacking ASI risks, potential benefits, and the growing AI arms race.

CRISPR-based gene editing has revolutionized modern biology, but these tools are unable to access the DNA that resides inside ...

Gene expression analysis is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the rapid evolution of advanced omics technologies. From single-cell ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the nucleosome regulates the positioning of INO80. This highlights that the ...

Background Chronic stress is a known risk factor for cancer metastasis. However, the underlying mechanisms, particularly ...