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Researchers who discovered a molecular “scissors” for snipping genes have now developed a similar approach for targeting and cutting RNA. The new cutting tool should help researchers better understand RNA’s […]

More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. Those are some of the […]

Of all the species that have populated Earth at some time over the past 3.5 billion years, more than 95% have vanished — many of them in spectacular die-offs called […]

Materials scientists are creating next-generation mixtures with remarkable properties.

Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing have created a mirror-image version of a protein that performs two of the most fundamental processes of life: copying DNA and transcribing it into […]

Silicone polymer mimics youthful elasticity of skin.

Machine-learning approach mines unpublished ‘dark’ reactions that don’t work, as well as ones that do.

Ambitious effort depends on transformation of rhino tissue into sperm and egg cells.

The microbiologist spent years moving labs and relishing solitude. Then her work on gene-editing thrust her into the scientific spotlight.