For nearly a decade, scientists have known that HIV integrates itself into genes in cells that have the potential to cause cancer. And when this happens in animals with other retroviruses, those animals often develop cancer. ...
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Genomic testing—the ability to read an individual's genetic code and identify their risk of conditions such as cancer—has opened up huge possibilities in personalized medicine.
Oct 5, 2021
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US pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Monday it had begun a clinical trial to test an influenza vaccine designed with the same mRNA technology behind its successful COVID-19 shot.
Sep 28, 2021
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The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been hotly debated.
Sep 24, 2021
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The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary biology has on daily life. But how mutations, random chance and natural selection produce variants is a complicated process, and there has been ...
Sep 9, 2021
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China's drug regulator has approved the country's first mixed-vaccine trial, a company involved in the study said, as the rapid spread of the Delta variant raises concern about the efficacy of domestically produced jabs.
Aug 11, 2021
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NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) researchers have uncovered a code that sets the genome of the liver to account for the remarkable ability for this organ to regenerate. This finding offers new insight into how the specific genes that ...
Jul 6, 2021
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Results from the first trial of a new COVID-19 vaccine technology show no short-term safety concerns.
Jul 2, 2021
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Late last year, I asked: is it safe to have more than one type of COVID-19 vaccine? A trial has now addressed that question, as well as what effect combining different vaccine types has on immunity.
Jul 1, 2021
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Male mice more susceptible to stress can pass down their behaviors to offspring via changes in their sperm's genetic code, according to new research published in JNeurosci.
Jun 7, 2021
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