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

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

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

Eight researchers specializing in adult oncology from Fred Hutch Cancer Center and the University of Washington have been ...

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 ...

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according to a new study that may help tackle the pathogen.Viruses ...

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) continues to devastate the global swine industry, yet the ...

Scientists in Spain and China discovered that HSV-1 begins rewriting the architecture of human genes just one hour after ...