The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that HHMI Investigator Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of University of Copenhagen, and K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps ...

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CRISPR has sparked a renaissance in genome editing. Now, next-generation CRISPR technologies let scientists modify the genome more efficiently and precisely than before. Such tools could one day serve ...

A new type of DNA editing enzyme, developed in HHMI Investigator David Liu’s lab, lets scientists directly and permanently change single base pairs of DNA from A•T to G•C. The process could one day ...

A gene editing tool based on a bacterial toxin can make precise changes to mitochondrial DNA inside cells. Scientists can now precisely edit the genes inside mitochondria, the tiny energy factories ...

For media inquires please contact [email protected]. Thousands of undergraduate students contribute to new study that broadens understanding of genetic diversity of bacteriophages. Over the last seven ...

For media inquires please contact [email protected]. By probing how DNA is packaged in single mouse cells, scientists have uncovered how different types of cells distinguish themselves. The resulting ...

Flies use visual cues to finesse their mental maps of the environment. Two new studies use virtual reality to show how. In a circular arena, a fruit fly navigates a virtual landscape illuminated by ...

For media inquires please contact [email protected]. New experiments help explain how the brain speeds up or slows down movement. What if you couldn’t move faster even when you wanted to? Researchers ...

As fish in different parts of the world adapted to live in fresh water, the same sites in the genome were changed time and again. Investigator, Stanford University As fish in different parts of the ...

HHMI researchers have learned to program T cells as if they were “microscopic robots” -- to sense inputs and to respond. Investigator, University of California, San Francisco HHMI researchers have ...

International research team unveils new data describing the interaction between genetic and epigenetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Many questions about plant evolution and adaptation can be ...