Baylor College of Medicine researchers are part of a collaborative research group with AstraZeneca and Memorial Sloan ...

Scientists have identified 22 genes that explain why one common virus leaves many people unharmed but puts others at risk of ...

A viral infection can trigger a neurological disease similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in mice with a specific ...

In a recent review published in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, researchers presented recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV)-based genetic applications to treat human diseases. Study: ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter vomiting, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University ...

You're walking around right now carrying the genetic fingerprints of infections that happened millions of years ago. Deep inside your cells, woven into the very fabric of your DNA, sit sequences that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This undated photo shows Terry Horgan of Montour Falls, N.Y. Horgan, 27, the lone volunteer in a gene-editing study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. illustration of blue DNA molecule with a red inserted segment When viruses pay us a visit, they sometimes leave parts of ...

There’s a bromance of nightmares lurking where you least suspect it — on handrails, doorknobs, even your own skin. These innocuous places are meeting grounds for viruses and bacteria, a microscopic ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, researchers engineered prime editor (PE)-engineered virus-like particles (eVLPs) delivering PE proteins, PE guide ribonucleic acids ...

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to ...