The human avian flu has yet to pass from human to human, but state gene detectives are on the lookout for mutations.

A collaborative effort between investigators at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and ...

All cancer mutations that cause drug resistance fall into one of four categories. New research has detailed each type, helping to uncover targets for drug development and identify potential effective ...

New COVID-19 strains are emerging and with it the need for updated vaccines to protect people from the virus. So how do ...

Initial findings of genomic analysis indicates that the Marburg virus, which caused an outbreak in Rwanda, has "a single zoonotic origin," meaning it jumped from an animal to a human only once and had ...

Researchers obtain detailed picture of the specific mechanisms by which each individual mutation studied impacts drug response.

Transposons, specifically LINE-1 elements, previously regarded as genomic parasites, play a pivotal role in early human ...

Radiation is a form of energy emitted as waves or particles, and it can be categorized into ionizing and non-ionizing types, ...

A novel customizable OpenGUS immunoassay that detects analytes quickly and effectively has been developed by scientists from ...

Researchers, supported by the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, have created a comprehensive map of the fruit fly brain, identifying ...

Biophysical chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered a previously hidden landscape that governs the intracellular organization and dynamics of SWI/SNF chromatin ...