The mammalian innate immune system seems to have developed three distinct systems to sense viral infection through the recognition of nucleic acids. These are the endosomal Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

Nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) are polymers of nucleotides – each nucleotide consists of a pentose sugar, a phosphate group and one of the nitrogenous bases (purines and pyrimidines). Nucleic acids ...

Chronic hepatitis B (CHB), a chronic liver infectious disease, results from persistent hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection lasting over 6 months. It has become a substantial global public health burden.

Caroline Connor's concerns about her son Mason's development began around his first birthday, when she noticed he wasn't talking or using any words. Their pediatrician didn't seem worried, but the ...

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will laying out his wishes for the Nobel Prize. In 2024, the prize came with an award of 11 million Swedish krona, ...

Department of Pharmacy, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan ...

1 The Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, United States 2 The Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States As ...

State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biosensing and Molecular Recognition, Research Center for Analytical Sciences, College of Chemistry, and School of ...