Pepper the cat, whose owner works at the University of Florida, gathered a specimen containing a never-before-seen virus for ...

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

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

New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered how a key protein from the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), EBNA-LP, ...

A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

This innovative software, CRISPRware, optimizes guide RNA design for genome editing, supporting research on genetic disorders ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

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

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

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

The gene-editing platform known as Crispr is widely used by researchers in scientific laboratories in their search for new ...