Prime editing system offers wide range of versatility in human cells, correcting disease-causing genetic variations A team from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed... Read more
A team led by researchers from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, has characterized and engineered a new gene-editing system... Read more
Synthetic biologists add tunable, analog-to-digital converter to their toolkit Synthetic biologists have added high-precision analog-to-digital signal processing to the genetic cir... Read more
Computational method helps scientists examine microbes at a larger, more comprehensive scale than previously possible During the Zika virus outbreak of 2015–16, public health offic... Read more
These cells appear to be the primary source of activity of the gene responsible for multiorgan disease n separate studies published online today in Nature, two independent research... Read more
A strip of paper can now indicate presence of pathogens, tumor DNA, or any genetic signature of interest. 100-fold greater sensitivity, the ability to detect multiple targets at on... Read more
Inspired by rare genetic disease, researchers develop a compound that can protect kidney cells from death and restore kidney function in multiple animal models of progressive kidne... Read more
A personal cancer treatment vaccine that targets distinctive “neoantigens” on tumor cells has been shown to stimulate a potent, safe, and highly specific immune anti-tumor response... Read more
A team of scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science at MIT, and... Read more
A team spanning Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Texas Children’s Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new way to sequence genomes, which... Read more
