The CRISPR-Cas9 system offers groundbreaking genome editing capabilities, yet off-target cleavage raises concerns about ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically ...

Africa is grappling with severe food insecurity in the wake of consecutive droughts, climate change, and ongoing conflicts, which are affecting millions across the continent.

Gene therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis have evolved slowly, but one is ready to move into human trials and an ...

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UCSF scientists are taking the first steps toward creating a new type of antibiotic that uses an unusual virus to defeat ...

The emerging use of recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) coupled with CRISPR/Cas12a technology in bacterial diagnostics marks a significant advancement in the field, providing rapid, highly ...

But the coronavirus causes COVID, while the influenza virus causes the flu. COVID also spreads faster than the flu and remains contagious for longer periods. Both illnesses cause symptoms such ...

Kennedy Jr. will di­vest his in­ter­ests in sev­er­al bio­phar­ma com­pa­nies, in­clud­ing CRISPR Ther­a­peu­tics and Drag­on­fly Ther­a­peu­tics, if con­firmed by the ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

The new EU project COMBINE ("Comparative Signature of Marburg Virus Cell Activation as a Blueprint for the Identification of Antiviral Targets against Newly Emerging Viruses") acknowledges that ...