For over a century, scientists have analyzed the vast microbial world within the human body. They’ve found bacteria, fungi, ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements, can replicate and reintegrate themselves into the genome, posing a threat to genomic integrity by inducing DNA rearrangements and ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements as they can replicate and reinsert themselves in the ...

Home > Pressemitteilung: First snapshot of retrotransposon in ...

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...

People in the U.K. who have already had norovirus this season could still be at risk due to a shift in circulating strains, ...

SARS-CoV-2 secondary structure shapes mutation frequencies, constraining viral evolution models predicting fitness can benefit from integrating secondary structure data.

To become infectious, HIV has to undergo a maturation process, which involves a rearrangement of the matrix proteins (red).

A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to uncover ancient ...

ASCR, the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has ...

Scientists have identified a novel influenza A virus (H18N12) in fishing bats in the Colombian Caribbean, revealing genetic ...

A new combination of microscopy methods has revealed exquisite detail of the virus assembly process used by herpes simplex ...