The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after ...

Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

Scientists are developing all sorts of potential new treatments to tackle the most difficult cancer cases—including some that ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

The University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Medicine said on Thursday that one of its 41 drugs under clinical trials for Hepatitis B may provide a cure ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

This study has shown that HSV-1 is an "opportunistic interior designer" of human cells. | Genetics And Genomics ...

An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus ...

Imagine your child develops a skin rash of red dots, runs a fever and feels tired. When things don’t improve within a few ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to ...