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A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus ...

There’s an entire world of microbiomes living just under our noses. Although we can’t see them, bacteria, viruses, and other ...

UC San Francisco Chancellor emeritus J. Michael Bishop, MD, a pioneering microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in ...

Researchers at UC San Diego have found that several of the most dangerous zoonotic viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, and ...

This research will evaluate several potential strategies leveraging Tessera’s Gene Writing platform to engineer immune cells in vivo, including approaches designed to disrupt pathways required for HIV ...

Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even coral skeletons.

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the ...

Scientists have discovered a defensive method of cells that resembles Spiderman shooting his web to ensnare enemies. These ...

For decades, large portions of the human genome were labeled "junk DNA." New research from Western University and London ...

I was born in Washington, DC, in 1964, the oldest of three sisters, but the place that truly formed me as a scientist was Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Growing up there, far from the mainland ...