If schools want to prepare young people for a future shaped by technology, they must act now to ensure that computer science is not a privilege for a few but a foundation for all. The time to begin is ...

President Gerald Ford signed the “Education for All Handicapped Children Act” in November 1975, which later became the ...

LabCentral today announced the appointment of Kamran Tavangar as Head of Science Strategy. In this new executive role, Kamran ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. previews the complex, multi-generational stories shaping the newest season of PBS' Finding Your Roots.

The Exhibition brings together over 30 naturally and intentionally preserved human and animal mummies from South America, Europe, and ancient Egypt. Since its world premiere at the California Science ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

The partnership aims to provide curated access to credible science, responsible innovation, and practical frameworks ...

Explore RNA interference methods, comparing siRNA and shRNA for gene knockdown, their mechanisms, advantages, and ...

In mammals and other eukaryotes most of the genome is transcribed in a developmentally regulated manner to produce large numbers of long non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Here we review the rapidly advancing ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

It is an obvious extension of this research to convert static DNA structures into machines. DNA is not the natural choice of material to build active structures with because it lacks the structural ...