Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers worldwide, with a five-year survival rate of 13%. This poor prognosis stems ...

Piercing the nucleus of a cell without destroying it seems like a technical feat. Yet, researchers have just found a non-invasive method that could revolutionize gene therapies. A series of ...

They are formed in a woman's body before birth and have to be on standby for decades to possibly be fertilized one day. But ...

Pancreatic cancer’s deadly resilience may be tied to extrachromosomal DNA, which allows tumor cells to rapidly adapt to ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements as they can replicate and reinsert themselves in the ...

In recognition of their discovery of one of our immune system’s foundations, physician Andrea Ablasser, virologist Glen Barber and biochemist Zhijian ...

HIV inserts its genes into the host cell's nucleus in an unusual way. It doesn't import its RNA genetic material piecemeal. Instead, it stuffs its whole wedge-shaped capsid—basically the whole ...

Researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center have discovered an overlooked mechanism driving aggressive breast and brain tumors ...