San Diego-based Element Biosciences on Tuesday announced a large Series E investment round, including a $175 million raise from Samsung Electronics, that will help it commercialize its new benchtop ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence supporting a mechanism in which transposable elements (TEs), once considered "non-functional" DNA, may have contributed to the evolution and expansion of gene ...

Physician and molecular biologist Katherine High remembers sitting at a staff meeting of the gene therapy company Spark Therapeutics on November 15, 2018, waiting to hear from a guest speaker, when ...

Transposable elements (TEs) are discrete DNA sequences capable of moving within and between genomes, shaping genome architecture and function across all domains of life. They encompass two principal ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Alternative splicing—the way cells edit gene messages—forms a second, independent layer of ...

The authors describe the scientific foundations of a study of gene therapy for hearing loss caused by damaging variants in the gene OTOF. Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, ...

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...

Researchers led by Min Zhang and Dabao Zhang of the University of California, Irvine's Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health have created the most detailed maps to date showing how genes ...

In 2018, a nervous-looking He Jiankui took the stage at a scientific conference in Hong Kong. A hush settled over the packed auditorium as the soft-spoken Chinese scientist adjusted his microphone and ...

The paper synthesizes global experiences and key lessons in the regulation and supervision of cyber risk in the financial sector. It draws on the IMF’s financial stability surveillance and technical ...

On November 28 2025, the European Commission adopted a regulation implementing the Cyber Resilience Act (‘CRA’) – an EU-wide law which lays down cybersecurity requirements for companies that design ...

To understand how organisms are related, researchers use molecular information to construct phylogenetic trees. Most of the time, scientists use thousands of protein-coding sequences to determine ...