Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During ...

For almost 60 years, scientists have tried to understand why DNA doesn't replicate wildly and uncontrollably every time a ...

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent stem cells that can produce all cell types of an organism. ES cells proliferate rapidly and have been thought to experience high levels of intrinsic ...

Conventional methods of DNA sequence insertion into plants, using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation or microprojectile bombardment, result in the integration of the DNA at random sites in the ...

As direct descendants of ancient bacteria, mitochondria have always been a little alien. Now a study shows that mitochondria are possibly even stranger than we thought. Mitochondria in our brain cells ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kano Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) as a safe, efficient and flexible biomolecule for gene insertions, today announced ...

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Spun out of MIT, the company is engineering a new class of biomolecules at 10x lower cost and drastically increased scale to advance gene editing toward cures for complex diseases. “We believe curing ...