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Wave expects to initiate a Phase 2a multidose portion of WVE-007 INLIGHT clinical trial in individuals living with obesity ...

An updated edition of the Nov. 18, 2025, article. Genomics is a broad and detailed study of genomes (an organism’s complete set of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA). Recent scientific advances in this ...

Elana Thieme and Mark Mendoza, fourth-year graduate students in the Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) PhD Program jointly administered by Fred Hutch Cancer Center and the University of Washington, have ...

Bacterial cells can easily swap bits of DNA, and many of those pieces of genetic material carry genes that confer resistance to antibiotics. This gene sharing is one reason why antimicrobial ...

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Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode ...

Cancer cells are known to reawaken embryonic genes to grow. A new study reveals the disease also hijacks the proteins, or "editors," that control how those genes are read. The findings, published in ...

Two months after she was born, Eliana Nachem got a cough that wouldn’t go away. Three weeks later, she also started having runny stool, prompting a visit to her pediatrician. Eliana didn’t have ...

RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is a powerful tool in diagnosing Mendelian disorders, but the optimized sequencing depth for this technology has not yet been determined. In a new study published in the ...