Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details explaining how poxviruses manipulate host cells to enhance their ...

Researchers at Tufts University revealed a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene, pointing to a component of the ...

Pandemics threaten both human health and the global economy. Vaccines are an essential part of the fight against pandemics, but they are only available months after the outbreak ...

Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will produce long-lasting antibodies recognizing that specific virus, thereby ...

APOBECs are part of a first response team of proteins used to fight off viral infection until the adaptive part of the immune system can generate antibodies and killer T cells. They work by ...