That’s gene editing. On paper, it is merely the rearrangement of letters. However, the road to editing genes in hopes of a therapeutic benefit is difficult to travel. Additionally, researchers want ...

Signal transduction The cellular process that converts a signal, such as a hormone, growth factor, neurotransmitter, cytokine, mechanical force, or environmental cue, into biochemical changes inside ...

A research team led by Dr. Tetsuya Muramoto from the Faculty of Science at Toho University has demonstrated the mechanisms by which periodic chemical signal frequencies in cells regulate gene ...

Lentiviral transduction is a popular delivery platform for applications such as CAR-T cell engineering or CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, as it can transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells and ...

A newly revealed mechanism of horizontal gene transfer improves understanding of how antibiotic resistance is transferred between bacteria. The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance (AR) is a ...

Chemotherapy faces a fundamental problem: The same drugs powerful enough to kill cancer cells can also damage healthy tissue. UC Irvine researchers are trying to change that equation by putting a ...