How did viruses evolve? Are they a streamlined ... retrotransposons. These mobile genetic elements make up an astonishing 42% of the human genome (Lander et al. 2001) and can move within the ...

Human protection against bird flu may be easier than scientists previously thought, thanks to new findings about the core genetic makeup of the virus and one particular T cell that all of us have ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

The slight change in the virus’s genetic makeup is “associated with viral adaptation to mammalian hosts,” the Centre for ...

Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism ... delivered into cells using adeno-associated viruses thanks to its small size. A thorough understanding of the ...

And dating viruses through changes in their genetic sequence isn't helpful ... "We have been incorporating viral material ...

As technologies for genetically modifying organisms have advanced and become more accessible, it has become easier and less expensive to alter the genetic makeup of viruses and bacteria. The potential ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Scientists have been able to revive 33 types of ancient viruses, which are thought to have been frozen in the ice of the Guliya ice cap in the Tibetan Plateau 15,000 years ago. Of those, 28 were ...

Researchers at Martin Luther University have developed groundbreaking RNA-based agents that offer high levels of protection ...

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in ...