A team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has identified a structural trick that lets viruses translate their genetic code inside human cells, even when that code is riddled with “bad” codons the host ...

Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their function in certain cycles.

Researchers reviewed how somatic mutations accumulate in normal and diseased tissues, showing that natural selection can expand clones that influence disease risk, tissue adaptation, or cellular ...

HeLa cells are the most famous human cells in science. Discover how cervical cancer, HPV proteins, and bioethics shaped one of medicine’s biggest breakthroughs.

An estimated 170,000 Australians were diagnosed with cancer in 2025. Many people know the causes of cancer are partly genetic. But how do your genes, which contribute so much of what makes you you, ...

Viruses may hold the blueprint for next-generation antibiotics—by revealing how to shut down a bacterial lifeline called MurJ. Here, three distinct phage Sgl proteins lock the flippase MurJ in an ...

The absence of an immediately deployable, broad-spectrum antiviral remains a critical vulnerability in global pandemic preparedness. Host-directed agents that activate innate immunity offer a pathogen ...

according to the US FDA (https://www.fda.gov/industry/medical-products-rare-diseases-and-conditions/designating-orphan-product-drugs-and-biological-products). “NV ...