A healthy skin microbiome plays a crucial role in regulating our immune system and preventing chronic health issues, such as ...

Altered activity of ancient viral genes were linked to neurodegenerative diseases including ALS in a recent analysis.

Yet another strain of the virus that causes mpox might be readily spreading from person to person, according to an analysis ...

Pigs get both bird flu viruses and human flu viruses ... they can sequence its genome. That could hint at which animal it first came from. Scientists will likely look for mutations in the virus ...

because they can be infected with both bird flu viruses and human flu viruses. If the animals are co-infected at the same time with two or more viruses, the viruses can swap genes, potentially ...

Heritable human genome editing has long been hotly contested ... He said his goal was to provide children with resistance to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. When his experiment became public ...

However, we are still navigating uncharted territory with this virus. So far, there has been no documented human-to-human transmission, and genome sequences do not show any signs of the virus ...

He said his goal was to provide children with resistance to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS ... justification typically given for heritable human genome editing. Others condemned his secretive ...

But after two decades of research, and no small amount of controversy, we can be sure that Homo floresiensis wasn’t really anything close to a short human with big feet and a penchant for seed ...

Heritable human genome editing has long been hotly contested ... He said his goal was to provide children with resistance to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. When his experiment became public ...