"We show that if you can see where a virus is evolving ahead of time, you can begin to make future-proof vaccines," said first author Noor Youssef, a scientific lead for the Predictive Modeling for ...

The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...

Analyzing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique from Würzburg can do this much more ...

The UK’s fight against devastating pests and diseases has been reinforced with £10m in funding to support cutting-edge ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

Lurking deep inside your DNA are the remnants of ancient viruses—genetic hitchhikers from infections that happened millions ...

Scientists project that by 2026 the results of clinical trials being conducted in 25 countries, including Spain, will be ...

The first Trump administration lifted that ban in 2017, along with new panel approval guidelines to regulate which ...

While they’ve played a role in human evolution, they can also cause problems like cancer, brain disorders, and even aging.

A new study reveals that a transposable element binds to cellular DNA during the brief periods when nuclei break open as ...

The genome incorporation mechanism for LINE-1, the only autonomously active retrotransposon in humans, leverages the cell ...

A new study has provided crucial insight into how a genetic element that has come to make up a large part of human DNA can ...