Feng Zhang named a runner-up for TIME’s 2016 Person of the Year
MIT and Broad Institute scientist shares recognition with four other scientists for developing CRISPR gene-editing systems.
MIT and Broad Institute scientist shares recognition with four other scientists for developing CRISPR gene-editing systems.
Cloud-based platform assists in managing, sharing data facilitates research.
Newly discovered genetic code controls bacterial survival during infections.
Study finds a complex series of molecular, cellular, circuit and network-level changes contribute to the progression of Alzheimer's.
Heidi Williams builds all-new data sets to answer questions about innovation and biomedical research.
Personal genomic data makes a bigger impact when it portends well, a new study finds.
Biologists have discovered how an enigmatic type of RNA helps to control cell fate.
New technique offers precise manipulation of when and where genes are targeted.
System helps ensure databases used in medical research will not leak patients’ personal information.
PhD student Tim Wang uses CRISPR to take a big-picture approach to cancer research.
Deletion of the HDAC3 gene in the brains of mice causes cognitive and social impairments consistent with Rett Syndrome.
New approach to biological circuit design enables scientists to track cell histories.
Largest metagenomic view of the developing world uncovers “mobile genes” that reveal how culture shapes the human microbiome.
Biologists find a possible explanation for why the drug helps bipolar patients.
Researchers identify genes that mutate in endometrial cancer, create a family tree describing the evolutionary history of the disease.