The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

Researchers used cryo-EM to study how the HIV enzyme integrase arranges in 3D to slip its DNA into the host genome and pack ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

Drugs to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases - such as asthma, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis or Chrousos syndrome - ...

Frogs have made significant contributions to Fred Hutch science over the years as a model organism that shares much of our ...

The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain.

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

Researchers say findings help to bridge the structure of the genome to its function in managing how genes are turned on and off.

When strands of DNA - our genetic building blocks - are damaged ... allowing it to assemble an entirely different structure and function." Over millions of years of evolution, Prof Balmus explained, ...