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For the first time scientists have released a genetically engineered, self-limiting agricultural pest into an open field. They have evaluated its potential for future crop protection, with promising results.

Most cancers are caused by a large variety of factors that vary from one person to another. To unravel this complexity, genes that contribute to the development of a respective cancer must be identified. Such genes are called oncogenes.

Researchers have uncovered a method to circumvent the complex genome of the axolotl, and consequently identify at least two genes involved in its regeneration.

A new study suggests that not only do individual mammalian cells in a population fail to respond synchronously to estrogen stimulation, neither do individual alleles.

Individuals within a species may all look alike to the average insect, but one paper wasp species has evolved specialized cognitive abilities to recognize individual faces among their peers. How did complex cognition evolve in just this species?

A team of undergraduates and high school students has published an encyclopedia of more than 1,000 fruit fly genes which could be associated with the development of several organs.

An interdisciplinary Munich research team led by scientists from TUM has for the first time succeeded in correcting the mutated dystrophin gene in living pigs. In order to cut the defective gene sequence from the DNA of the animals' muscle and heart cells, the researchers modified the Crispr-Cas9 gene scissors.

Using a using a single-needle biopsy and new technology for tumor diagnosis developed by Baylor College of Medicine and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, researchers have been able to provide a more detailed and wider window into cancer biology, tumor type and the mechanisms of response and resistance to therapy than with conventional approaches.

Stanford scientists have completed the first global census of diverse proteins sprouting tree-like from the outer membrane of a cell. These cell surface proteins govern how cells interact with one another and how they assemble into tissues and organs such as hearts and brains.

A new study analyzing the data of Maple Syrup Urine Disease patients suggests there is a critical unmet need for safer and more effective disease-modifying interventions, including gene replacement or editing therapies.