The gene editor will be used in lab dishes in cancer and blood disorder trials, and to directly edit a gene in human eyes in a blindness therapy test.
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In people with celiac disease, some T cells release immune chemicals within hours of encountering gluten, triggering the fast onset of symptoms.
Subtle defects affecting T cells altered the animals’ microbiome and fat absorption, providing hints of what might also be going on in people.
In the lab, an alga and a fungus teamed up to exchange food, similar to lichens. But instead of staying outside, the alga moved into the fungal cells.
Anti-aging therapies may have trade-offs, research on worms suggests.
Sleeping zebrafish have brain and body activity similar to snoozing mammals, suggesting that sleep evolved at least 450 million years ago.
DNA analysis of a skull indicates that the animal had a narwhal mother and beluga father.
Detailed views of a common stomach virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea could aid vaccine and disinfectant development.
In controlled field experiments in Burkina Faso, a genetically engineered fungus reduced numbers of insecticide-resistant mosquitoes that can carry malaria.
A pump protein can keep bacteria alive long enough for the microbes to develop antibiotic resistance.