All plants mediate their environmental interactions via chemical signals. An example is the alkaloid gramine produced by barley, one of the world's most widely-grown cereals. Gramine provides ...

Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a versatile and non-toxic technology for controlling the activity of any gene in a cell. Such "gene-switch" tools allow scientists to "turn on" ...

ElevateBio is seeking out partnerships for its lead gene therapy after the construct reduced the levels of a toxic protein in mice with Huntington’s disease by more than 80%. The therapy had no impact ...

In the new study, the researchers found that different blood proteins activate distinct molecular processes in microglia. What's more, they identified that fibrin is responsible for driving unique ...

Ability to avoid pretransplant chemotherapy could open up stem cell transplants for patients who might otherwise be too sick ...

Gene therapy is one of the latest avenues for combatting Alzheimer's and related diseases. UC San Diego researchers led by Brian Head (right) and Shanshan Wang in the Department of Anesthesiology at ...