HOLYROOD ministers must use their upcoming Budget to signal a “clear intent” to introduce a tax on private jets, campaigners have insisted. Oxfam Scotland estimated such a charge could have raised £27 ...

Data from a major U.S. clinical trial from the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has uncovered a genetic factor that ...

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A new CRISPR-based approach for tuning gene expression up and down allowed identification of how other genes' expression responds to changes of transcription factors.

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it takes for cells to behave in desired ways — for example, getting them to ...