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Drugs of the future will be easier and faster to make, thanks to mRNA – after researchers work out a few remaining kinks
Two hurdles mRNA drugs face are a short half-life and impurities that trigger immune responses. BlackJack3D/iStock via Getty…
Scientists Create Self-Replicating DNA Nanorobots with Potential for Targeted Cancer Treatment
At a Glance Scientists from universities in New York and Ningbo, China, have made a groundbreaking discovery in…
Jurassic Park: why we’re still struggling to realise it 30 years on
Rattana/Shutterstock Tiffany Shea Slater, University College Cork and Maria McNamara, University College Cork Jurassic Park is arguably the…
It sounds like science fiction. But we can now sample water to find the DNA of every species living there
Shutterstock Maarten De Brauwer, CSIRO and Oliver Berry, CSIRO Figuring out what species live in an ecosystem, and…
A new theory linking evolution and physics has scientists baffled – but is it solving a problem that doesn’t exist?
Tim Johnson / Unsplash Bill Bateman, Curtin University In October, a paper titled “Assembly theory explains and quantifies…
Cat Genomes Show Fewer Complex Genetic Variations Compared to Other Mammals, Study Finds
Researchers from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences have made significant discoveries about the…
Your genetic code has lots of ‘words’ for the same thing – information theory may help explain the redundancies
The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in…
Who lived at Machu Picchu? DNA analysis shows surprising diversity at the ancient Inca palace
Eddie Kiszka/Pexels, CC BY-SA Roberta Davidson, University of Adelaide Standing atop the mountains in the southern highlands of…
Scientists Discover New Molecular Mechanism That Contributes to Aging
Scientists have discovered a new molecular mechanism that contributes to aging. Six research groups from the University of…
How Did Plants Survive the Asteroid That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?
Around 60% of all plant species on Earth died with the nonavian dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when…