What if a cup of coffee could help treat cancer? Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Institute of Biosciences and Technology ...

Microbiologist John van der Oost of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has received an ERC Proof of Concept grant to ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the new inductees to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 3D-printed ...

DNA is often described as the instruction manual for building the fundamental components of life. Proteins are helpers that ...

When gene therapy was first proposed in the 1970s, the idea seemed straightforward but revolutionary: replacing defective genes with functional ones to cure a disease. But over the decades, this ...

Scientists discovered why some neurons resist tau toxicity, identifying CRL5SOCS4 as a crucial defense and linking ...

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases. Last February ...

It will fund validation awards to bring therapies to human trials and innovation awards to those that "push the boundaries" ...

Key takeawaysTau is the most common protein that aggregates in neurodegeneration diseases. However, researchers had not ...

New research by UCLA Health and UC San Francisco has uncovered why certain brain cells are more resilient than others to the ...

The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it.