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DARPA Pours $65 Million Into Making CRISPR Safer

News Jul 20, 2017

With one eye on potential bioterrorism threats, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced $65 million in funding to seven projects around the USA.

CRISPR Reveals New Targets for Promising Cancer Drugs

News Jul 20, 2017

Novel screening method identifies new drug targets that could potentially enhance the effectiveness of PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, a promising new class of cancer immunotherapy.

Potential Barcode Identified for a Form of Alcoholic Liver Disease

News Jul 19, 2017

NIAAA-supported researchers have discovered that extracellular vesicles released by liver cells in a mouse model of alcoholic steatohepatitis contain a miRNA signature detectable in the blood.

Synchrotron Light Shows Human Domestication of Seeds From 2000BC

News Jul 17, 2017

For the first time, scientists from University College London have used the UK's synchrotron facility to document the evolution of seed coat thinning from archaeological remains.

Study Indicates 75% of Human Genome is Non-functional

News Jul 16, 2017

An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more than 25 percent of the human genome is functional.

Changing microRNA's Presence in Glioblastoma Cells Could Change the Tumor's Subtype

News Jul 16, 2017

BWH researchers examined a specific microRNA, miR-128, to help identify glioblastoma subtypes and to determine if altering the microRNA's presence in glioblastoma cells could change the tumor's subtype.

RNA Molecules Lives Are 10 Times Shorter Than Previously Thought

News Jul 16, 2017

A research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has developed a new method to measure the half-life of RNA molecules.

Big-Data Analysis Points Toward New Drug Discovery Method

News Jul 16, 2017

A research team has developed a computational method to systematically probe massive amounts of open-access data to discover new ways to use drugs, including some that have already been approved for other uses.

CRISPR Transforms Living Cells Into Data Storage Devices

News Jul 13, 2017

Genome engineering technology transforms living cells into archival data storage devices that capture, store, and propagate information over time.

Anti-CRISPR Proteins Decrease Damaging Off-target Effects

News Jul 13, 2017

Research now shows that the countermeasure viruses came up with — inhibitory proteins referred to as anti-CRISPRs — can be used to improve CRISPR-Cas9 as a gene-therapy tool, decreasing off-target gene editing that could cause unwanted side effects.