In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have ...

Schematic of the T7-ORACLE system. The genome is maintained by the non-mutagenic host replisome (gray), while an orthogonal ...

In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, UCLA scientists have shown it's possible to reprogram a patient's blood-forming stem ...

Scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center accidentally reprogrammed one type of mature neuron into another type of mature neuron, without having to revert the cells to a ...

The food you eat does more than just fuel your body-it might also “speak” to your genes. Emerging science in nutrigenomics suggests that food can influence how our genetic blueprint operates ...

After turning skin cells into blood vessel tissue in a lab mouse, researchers say they hope to test their new technique, 'nano-transfection,' more widely — possibly even on humans ...

Researchers Reprogram Normal Tissue Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells Date: June 7, 2007 Source: University of California - Los Angeles Summary: Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology ...