2025

A previously unknown type of mitochondrial DNA damage could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings of the UC Riverside-led study are published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and have potential implications for a range of mitochondrial dysfunction-associated diseases, including cancer […]

A consortium led by the University of Southampton has received funding to develop next-generation treatments for cancer and chronic inflammation. The consortium, made up of 10 academic research groups, four companies, a hospital and a non-profit organisation, has received £3.8 million from the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme. […]

UCLA researchers have created the first single-cell map of how DNA is regulated and organized inside different cell types of human fat tissue. The study, published in Nature Genetics, shows that many genetic risk factors for abdominal obesity reside in epigenomic regions of fat cells, offering clues about how body […]

University of Warwick research demonstrates how to engineer ‘cell factories’ that last longer and produce more chemicals, without needing antibiotics or complex engineering methods, paving the way for sustainable biotech that lasts. Synthetic biology aims to engineer living cells, often bacteria, to become chemical factories, pumping out chemicals important to […]