In Biology 101, we learn that RNA is a single, ribbon-like strand of base pairs that is copied from our DNA and then read ...

Years later, his technique transformed heart treatment, saving millions. In 1956, Forssmann’s daring gamble was vindicated with a Nobel Prize in Medicine. In 1929, 25-year-old Werner Forssmann risked ...

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Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warns that President Trump’s unpredictable and often reversed tariff policies are creating deep uncertainty, discouraging business investment and thus increasing the ...

ECG Sudarshan was also nominated for a Nobel Prize 9 times, but he never won it. In 1960, when ECG Sudarshan started working on quantum optics at the University of Rochester, his use of classical ...

"CRISPR has the potential to make a huge impact in agriculture—one that can be customized to local needs around the world," said Doudna, a Nobel laureate ... DNA-cutting enzyme that's small ...

Its original iteration wowed scientists with its speed and accuracy in 2020, and two of its developers shared part of the 2024 Nobel Prize in ... of a number of RNA and DNA sequences, with some ...

His funeral will be on Saturday. In May of 2024, Pope Francis gathered 30 Nobel Peace laureates to the Vatican in a roundtable including our guest, Maria Ressa, who was awarded the prize for ...

Nobel laureate David Baker, right, speaks with BioCentury’s Simone Fishburn at the Life Science Innovation Northwest conference in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) University of ...

With over 750 million long RNA reads across 14 human cell lines, the Singapore Nanopore Expression (SG-NEx) dataset is designed to help researchers decode RNA complexity with greater precision ...

“We’re excited to share these enzymes with the genome editing community ... adjacent motifs (PAMs), which initiate guide RNA pairing with the target site. In the case of commonly used ...