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Gene editing, or purposefully changing a gene’s DNA sequence, is a powerful tool for studying…

As a first-generation college student from the small island of Guam in the western Pacific,…

The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT…

Until the past year, RNA was a molecule mostly relegated to research labs and biology…

The DNA inside a single human cell is several meters long — yet it must…

A protein that normally serves useful functions in the body like helping wounds heal and…

In seventh grade, Eduardo Canto wanted a dog. His mom said no, though. She didn’t…

In a major breakthrough, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have discovered how amyloid beta—the…

The first-floor classroom is empty inside the Boston University School of Medicine on a gray…

Every week during her first year at Harvard Medical School, Ryoko Hamaguchi sat in the…