DNA repair is essential for the maintenance of genomic stability and its failure can lead to human disease. Various DNA repair systems exist, such as base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, ...

Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

Researchers use cryo-EM and optical tweezers to investigate how an antiviral interacts with the herpes simplex virus.

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

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Few companies stand better poised than Beam Therapeutics to reap the first fruits of the FDA’s promised flexibility toward cell and gene therapies. | Riding a regulatory win for its base editing ...

The Trump administration’s Venezuela operation has led to severe travel delays for thousands of tourists after the abrupt closure of Caribbean airspace during one of the busiest travel periods of the ...

Thousands of people were stranded abroad because their flights home were scrapped after the U.S. temporarily shut down airspace around Venezuela following the capture of former President Nicolás ...

An analysis of genetic data from over 900,000 people shows that certain stretches of DNA, made up of short sequences repeated over and over, become longer and more unstable as we age. The study found ...