Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and ...

This article examines viral and non-viral vectors in gene therapy, highlighting their mechanisms, advantages, and limitations ...

Five years removed from the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists around the world are still studying its effects and, more importantly, ways those effects can be mitigated in the future.

A temporally resolved CRISPR-Cas9 screen reveals DAC-induced DNA damage drives trans-cell cycle cytotoxicity that depends on ...

Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...

Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

A surprising new study suggests that COVID-19 may not have originated from bats or pangolins, but rather from a rare fusion ...

Worryingly low levels of genetic diversity make Scotland’s red squirrels especially vulnerable to disease, a study has shown.

A dairy worker in Nevada has reportedly been infected by the killer variant of H5N1 bird flu; analysis shows changes in new ...