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Akero Therapeutics raised $65 million in series A financing to advance its lead program, long-acting fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) analog, for the…

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Researchers at the University of Delaware, working with colleagues at Indiana University, have gained new insights into the virus that causes hepatitis B -- a…

Cancer, aging-related diseases and other illnesses are closely tied to an important enzyme called "telomerase." UCLA researchers report in the journal Cell the…

Cambridge, U.K.-based Nodthera raised £28 million ($40 million) in series A funding to bring an NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitor through to proof of concept in…

Succinate is widely used as a raw ingredient for petrochemicals, and there is high demand for a way of producing succinate that is renewable and environmentally…

New, higher-quality assemblies of great ape genomes have now been generated without the guidance of the human reference genome. The effort to reduce…

A new study puts a surprising twist -- one might even say a double spiral -- into our understanding of how coral reefs react to ocean warming and acidification.…

Nestled deep in each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six feet of DNA is packaged into a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a human…

In partnership with several institutes across Japan, scientists at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, report a new microscopy system that…