Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

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The Gift of Life, a nonprofit organization based in Boca Raton, connects patients with blood cancers and other diseases to ...

A distinct set of microbes has been identified in people with obesity, which might help spot and treat the condition early – ...

The truth is that, while DNA testing is often touted as being 99.9% accurate, that tiny remaining fraction is where thousands of real lives exist. Globally, the prevalence of errors is not necessarily ...

How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...

"The infection of our body cells is like a dance between virus and cell," suggested Yohei Yamauchi at ETH Zurich. With their new system, the team watched how single flu virus particles move across the ...

Scientists have discovered a method of helping human stem cells thrive in an animal embryo—a key development in efforts to grow human organs in animals for medical transplants. A study by UT ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the first of its kind to be developed entirely from human cells. Not only can ...

Typically, bone marrow research relies heavily on animal models and oversimplified cell cultures in the laboratory. Now, researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and ...

Researchers have refined a powerful DNA sequencing tool that can uncover hidden mutations that occur naturally in our bodies as we age. In the largest study to date, they have used the tool to provide ...