When people eat, they ingest the nucleic acids that reside in all living things. The compounds in these acids could inhibit the growth of cancer cells, according to findings published in PLOS ONE ...

An innovative method that uses modified versions of a bacterial virus effective at delivering treatments to human cells shows ...

Development of an Elastin-like Polypeptide-Based Nucleic Acid Delivery System Targeted to EGFR+ Bladder Cancer Cells Using a Layer-by-Layer Approach. Biomacromolecules, 2024; DOI: 10.1021/acs ...

A rare genetic mutation that makes some people naturally impervious to viral diseases could lead to a universal antiviral ...

More information: Yu-Hung Hsieh et al, Telomeric repeat-containing RNA increases in aged human cells, Nucleic Acids Research (2025). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaf597 ...

University of Minnesota Medical School. "How Sudan virus binds to human cells." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 4 February 2025. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250204141852.htm>.

Purdue University researcher David Thompson has developed LENN, a system to deliver nucleic acid-based therapies to targeted cancer cells. His and his team’s research into using LENN to deliver ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday ...

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...