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What if scientists could control the activity of cells using nothing more than pulses of light? What sounds like science fiction has become one of the most influential technologies in modern biology. Earlier this ...

Every cell in the human body contains essentially the same genetic instructions, yet a heart cell behaves very differently from a nerve or skin cell. For many years, scientists assumed that once a cell ...

Cancer treatment has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past decade. What if, instead of relying solely on drugs to attack tumors, we could reprogram a patient's own immune cells to seek out and ...

CRISPR technologies can rewrite a disease-causing DNA sequence, switch a gene off, correct a single genetic letter or even alter gene activity without changing the underlying DNA. Yet a genome editor can only work ...

What if one of the biggest obstacles in gene therapy could be solved by borrowing a concept from everyday life? Just as Velcro joins two separate pieces together to create a strong and functional ...

On the 2nd of June 2026, the GeneH Consortium met together in Ljubljana for their yearly meeting and on the 3rd the consortium organized together with the Center for Functional Genomics and BioChips (CFGBC), ...

In our latest edition of the CTGCT Science Talks webinar series we had Dr. Thomas Fox, a clinician-scientist whose work bridges the gap between the clinical-laboratory interface working across Harvard Medical School and the ...

Imagine if we could design the "building blocks" of life just like we design a new house or a car. Instead of relying on what nature has given us through millions of years of ...

Imagine being able to open the "instruction manual" of a human cell and fix a single typo that causes a life-threatening disease. This is no longer science fiction; it is the reality of base ...

For patients undergoing a life-saving organ transplant, the road to recovery is often a delicate balancing act. While the new organ offers a second chance, the drugs needed to prevent the body from rejecting ...