An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

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A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...

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

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide insights into how mobile elements in DNA hijack cellular functions – and how ...

For the first time, researchers have confirmed the presence of Sindbis virus (SINV) in wild birds in Nigeria, raising ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

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 ...

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

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At present, there are no approved antiviral drugs for Nipah and supportive care is the only option for human infections.

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