Rice University bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human ...

Human MxA protein suppresses mammalian H5N1 virus replication, but emerging mutations may enable partial evasion, raising ...

Bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. The research could revolutionize therapies for complex conditions like autoimmune ...

While humans and chimpanzees share many genes, alterations in gene activity may account for distinctive features of the human ...

Since its discovery in the 1990s, programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) has been regarded as a leading target in cancer ...

After years of controversy, stem cells are on the cusp of cures for conditions like epilepsy and type 1 diabetes.

Rice University bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells.

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent and was ...

Rice bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. The ...

The fate of a Canadian teenager who was infected with H5N1 bird flu in early November, and subsequently admitted to an intensive care unit, has finally been revealed: She has fully recovered. But ...

In a pioneering study at the University of Arizona, researchers discovered that some patients with artificial hearts show ...

Usher syndrome (USH) is a rare hereditary genetic disorder characterized by hearing loss, visual impairment, and balance dysfunction. Patients with USH have ...