Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the ...

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 ...

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the process, viruses leave behind remnants throughout the genetic material ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

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

The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

The United States has launched a new and advanced universal vaccine platform designed to fight viruses that could cause ...

Science writer David Quammen, who predicted a pandemic would likely originate from a wet market - possibly in China - has ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

But the new study showed that when certain genes are changed, these killer T cells can malfunction. Instead of protecting the ...