Novel gene editing technology enables selective destruction of cancer cell DNA using fewer targets

Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST and the Center for Genomic Integrity at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have announced an advance in cancer gene therapy. Their ...
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For one family, 9/11 will feel 'different' this year after son ID'd 24 years later

In the 24 years since 9/11, Diane Keating has never given an interview. Why now? “People and families need to know they are still looking,” she told Spectrum News. Nearly a quarter of a century on, ...

Want to save an endangered species? Start with the right DNA blueprint

When scientists want to trace how a species has changed over time—and predict its prospects for survival—they turn to DNA.
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DNA sequence once overlooked as ‘junk’ found to drive human chromosome fusions

Leonardo Gomes de Lima, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the Gerton Lab, led the research. The findings show how these chromosome fusions form, why they remain stable, and how repetitive DNA, once ...