Imagine a breakthrough in cancer treatment where only malignant cells are targeted, sparing healthy host cells; or patients with abnormal protein synthesis are treated to produce a healthy protein.

Researchers have developed a new gene switch that can be activated using a commercially available nitroglycerine patch applied to the skin. One day, researchers want to use switches of this kind to ...

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This ...

Explore how T cell engagers could transform cancer and autoimmune treatments through promising trials and key collaborations.

Using protein structure prediction tools, researchers have uncovered receptor structure-function relationships to improve ...

Scientists engineered T cells to protect instead of kill, potentially enabling targeted treatments for autoimmune disease and ...

Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...

Here is the ultimate vision of systems biology: an entire living cell modeled on a computer. Type in a genetic mutation or ...

Dr. Irmgard Sinning used the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, a model organism frequently used in cell biology. Using ...