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A new study, led by Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, PhD, of Scripps Research, and Sheref Mansy, PhD, of the University of Trento, offers an explanation for how “protocells” could have emerged on early Earth, eventually leading to the cells we know today.

For the first time, scientists publish study findings on cattle produced from a genome-edited bull. All calves born were hornless and genotypic and phenotypic analysis demonstrate that the calves were healthy.

A new study designed experiments involving a simulated town to gain insights into the systems used by the brain to perceive our environment.

It may surprise some of our British readers that it has taken this long, but the first case of Brexit-induced psychosis has been recognized in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Case Reports.

Immunotherapy is a promising cancer treatment that uses genetically modified immune cells to fight cancer. However, the process known as transfection to generate genetically engineered immune cells in the laboratory has poor efficiency and may have serious side effects. Now, a research team has successfully invented a novel transfection method to deliver DNA into immune cells with minimal stress on these cells.

The criticality hypothesis asserts that the brain is poised on the fine line between quiescence and chaos, a point where information processing is maximized, by tuning the brain to maximum excitability. However, one of the key predictions of this theory -- that criticality is truly a set point, and not a mere inevitability -- had never been tested. Until now

New research has shown that cells previously ignored when studying multiple sclerosis are actually key contributors to its development.

A new study has investigated how immune cells sense and respond to their environment, which could provide insight into how these processes could be used for disease treatment.

A research group has discovered the extent of DNA that V. cholerae can steal in a single attack: more than 150,000 nucleic acid base pairs, or roughly 150 genes in one go (the cholera bacterium carries around 4,000 genes in total). The researchers calculated this number by sequencing the entire genome of almost 400 V. cholerae strains before and after stealing DNA from their neighboring bacteria.

Researchers have identified how pro-allergic environments act to induce the development of allergic asthma.