Rice University scientists used advanced CRISPR techniques to study PEX11, a protein coded by five genes in Arabidopsis plants, revealing its role in controlling peroxisome growth during the ...

Researchers have used modified CRISPR to silence the extra chromosome 21 in Down syndrome cells, showing promising ...

Rice University scientists used advanced CRISPR techniques to uncover how the PEX11 protein regulates peroxisome size during the critical seed-to-seedling growth stage in plants. By selectively ...

Before seedlings can photosynthesize, they depend on fatty acids—and on peroxisomes to process them. Researchers discovered ...

As cell and gene therapy leaders gathered in Maryland to discuss accelerating clinical trials in children, one “cutting edge” ...

Plants spend most of their lives using photosynthesis to make energy. However, in the earliest phase after a seed begins to grow, they cannot yet ...

Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), in collaboration with researchers at the ...

A diagram of the DRT3 system, showing Drt3a in yellow and Drt3b in blue. (Hyunbin Lee) Scientists have just discovered an ...

Humanity is gradually conquering incurable genetic diseases that were once considered untreatable, thanks to a series of ...

Discover how improving resistance to mildew and drought could help future-proof the wine industry against the warming climate ...

Precision breeding could be the key to restoring competitiveness - but it now risks becoming a casualty of UK-EU alignment talks' ...

Animal-to-human organ transplants promise a future where survival no longer depends on another person’s death.