Researchers have developed a gene therapy that significantly slowed motor function loss in preclinical models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

A study by the Center for Redox Processes in Biomedicine (Redoxoma) led by Marilene Demasi from the Butantan Institute (São Paulo, Brazil) presents a valuable new experimental model for investigating ...

Plant RNA viruses pose a significant threat to global agriculture, affecting a vast array of crop species and leading to ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like ‘Sukunaarchaeum ...

New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and La Jolla Institute for Immunology, published today in ...

Scientists have discovered a stealthy mechanism that cytomegalovirus (CMV)—the leading infectious cause of birth defects in ...

Chromatin is the DNA-protein complex that, when condensed, forms our chromosomes. The virus then reshapes the architecture of the chromatin, similar to folding origami, to bring itself into contact ...

HIV remains incurable but manageable. Johns Hopkins found a way to silence it long-term using a molecule from the virus ...