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AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this.

Systematic investigation of RNA splicing regulation remains challenging. Here, authors present SPLiCR-seq, a CRISPR platform enabling direct measurement of splicing outcomes for pooled perturbations.

Nature Sustainability publishes significant original research from a broad range of natural, social and engineering fields about sustainability, its policy dimensions and possible solutions.

Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism. Modifications can be generated by methods such as gene targeting, nuclear transplantation, transfection of synthetic ...

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Biophysics is the study of physical phenomena and physical processes in living things, on scales spanning molecules, cells, tissues and organisms. Biophysicists use the principles and methods of ...

Gene regulation refers to the mechanisms that act to induce or repress the expression of a gene. These include structural and chemical changes to the genetic material, binding of proteins to specific ...

The US administration is banking on public-private partnerships and an expanded workforce to deliver progress, but critics ...