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Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, created viruses with radioactive tracers in their DNA. They allowed the viruses to infect E. coli and then pulled off their empty husks in a fast-spinning centrifuge.

Katalin Karikó tolerated grant application rejections for years and a demotion before she achieved success with the COVID mRNA vaccine.

A few years ago, a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, announced that he had produced the world’s first CRISPR-edited humans—twin baby girls. According to He, the girls’ genes had been tweaked to confer resistance to HIV, though whether this is actually the case remains unclear. Shortly after he made the announcement, He was placed under house arrest in

My impression was that the revival of legitimate university research had made Stamets more comfortable reopening this particular chapter in his life.

An effective antibiotic needs to disrupt a vital bacterial process without affecting related human processes.

Already a physician, Bradner went back for further study in chemistry with the goal of developing targeted drugs that can disable cancer cells’ growth at the molecular level. From the beginning,

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At Harvard University, for example, George Church and his colleagues have drawn up a list of 151 genes, which they think would be enough to keep an organism alive.

all these self-splicing RNAs