For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the ...

New research reveals that triggering a cell’s DNA damage response could be a promising avenue for developing novel treatments against several rare but devastating viruses for which no antiviral ...

CRISPR-Cas9 is a customizable tool that lets scientists cut and insert small pieces of DNA at precise areas along a DNA strand. This lets scientists study genes in a specific, targeted way. (NHGRI via ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the ...

Researchers are using DNA 'origami' templates to control the way viruses are assembled. The global team behind the research developed a way to direct the assembly of virus capsids -- the protein shell ...

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus, evolved from the bird ...

Viruses are entities that have to infect other cells in order to replicate. They may have genomes that are made of DNA or RNA. We are still discovering new types of RNA viruses, as shown in two new ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – New research reveals that triggering a cell’s DNA damage response could be a promising avenue for developing novel treatments against several rare but devastating viruses for which no ...