In the prelude to cancer, genetic mutations can sometimes lead to the formation of chimeric proteins made from parts of two different proteins that are usually separate. A new review paper examines ...

A new study conducted at the Scojen Institute for Synthetic Biology at Reichman University’s Dina Recanati School of Medicine announces the launch of the ChiTaRS 8.0 database, the world’s largest ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies utilize engineered receptors that are able to redirect immune cells to identify and destroy cancer cells that express a specific antigen. At present, CAR-T ...

Julia Darby’s tagged chimeric proteins told a convincing story. Later, she learned that they distorted some of the details. When I expressed the different protein constructs in neuron cells in culture ...

DNA has its PCR, but no comparable method exists for high-sensitivity detection of proteins. Now, a new class of protein-DNA chimeras, dubbed "tadpoles," could fill that void. 1 "Call this PCR for ...

Microbiologists have long known that ancient, inactive viruses known as cryptic prophages can insert their genetic material into bacterial DNA. These genetic fragments allow bacteria to use ...

A team of researchers has reported for the first time the live birth of a monkey that contains a high proportion of cells derived from a monkey stem cell line. This 'chimeric' monkey is composed of ...

Fibrin hydrogel, an oft-used two-dimensional scaffold for in vitro cell culture, was recently functionalized to grow human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) in three dimensions. This advance ...