But in the 1990s the virus that causes AIDS turned out to offer a solution. Researchers discovered how to strip away HIV’s destructive genes and repurpose it as a “lentiviral vector”—a tool to deliver ...

A father’s plastic exposure could significantly induce metabolic disorders like diabetes in offspring. Limiting the plastic ...

A study by researchers at the Technion finds that injecting cancerous serum in mice decreased cardiac fibrosis, paving the ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

One ocean-dwelling creature found in many tropic waters is known to be able to reserve its own life cycle, cheating death.

Changing just one atom in a COVID-19 vaccine lipid redirects delivery from the liver to the spleen, improving tumor ...

Where Vehicle Theft Has Tripled Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport saw more than 300 vehicles stolen from parking lots during 2024, a dramatic surge from just 95 reported cases in 2023 ...

The cost of sequencing DNA has dropped dramatically, and with technologies like CRISPR, gene editing is becoming more precise and powerful than ever. From curing genetic diseases to designing the next ...

Cancer cells can brainwash their neighbors. Like the CIA deploying secret agents to turn an enemy, tumors use a similar strategy to manipulate nearby cells. The tumors’ agents are mitochondria, the ...

Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn ...