Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.

Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses are economically important pathogens of plants and animals, and are widespread in oceans; yet, the diversity and evolutionary relationships among marine ssDNA ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered that the herpes virus protein UL12.5 hijacks the body’s own immune pathways to trigger ...

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect ...

Some bacteria-killing viruses spell out their genetic instructions in a different DNA alphabet. More than 40 years ago, scientists in Russia reported that a type of bacteriophage called cyanophage ...

The plant-editing system uses mRNA to avoid the risk that foreign DNA could be left behind and create unwanted mutations.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Using a technique called “DNA origami,” researchers created traps that encase large viruses—such as SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, and Zika—in hopes of ...

Building a gene editor took months. With CRISPR even high-schoolers can get hold of editing systems in the time it takes to ...

Earth may have released intense cosmic radiation. These energetic particles could have altered the DNA of viruses in Lake ...

1 To adapt this technology for diagnostics, the team developed a one-pot approach that starts with the enzyme ribonuclease H, guided by DNA oligos, to selectively cut short sections of RNA that ...