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Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's now close to realization in the labs of Samuel Sternberg at Columbia ...

Study in mice shows how a host-elicited factor benefits gut immunological homeostasis by selectively targeting commensal ceramide molecules.

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A joint research team from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Beijing Institute of ...

Scientists led by Karla Satchell, Ph.D., the Anne Stewart Youmans Professor of Microbiology at Northwestern University, have ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

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An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm ...

"Using model organisms such as Salmonella enterica ... "Our method reliably detects the activity of 300 to 600 genes per ...

More than 280,000 people in Germany have multiple sclerosis (MS) and approximately 15,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.