A tiny infectious particle that can invade a cell.
The monkeypox virus is mutating at an unprecedented rate, arising from a single human case, according to results from a Portuguese study...
Prior to 2020, genetic mutations weren't something that regularly made the news. Now, two-and-a-half years out from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, new genetic variants continue to hit the headlines, and genomic mutations – in a virus, at least – are something the public are much more aware of...
A recent episode of Genetics Unzipped 'Have a heart: the science of xenotransplantation' talked about the process of transplanting organs from animals into human bodies...
Following the finding that monkeypox virus particles can be present in the semen of infected individuals, the World Health Organisation is now exploring the possibility that the virus could be sexually transmissible...
The man who received the first-in-human pig heart transplant died two months later, and a pig virus may have been a contributing factor...
While viruses and vaccines are not typical topics for a genetics and assisted reproduction newsletter, the past two years have seen a shift in BioNews coverage to include various COVID-19-related developments...
COVID-19-related delays to fertility treatment for Scottish are among the longest in the world, a global study has claimed...
The intestine is a likely infection route for COVID-19 in fetuses, although the placenta largely protects against infection...
The SARS-CoV-2 virus was detected in the semen of a COVID-19 patient taking part in a longitudinal study into the impact of the virus on male fertility...
Researchers have identified the first example of a non-coding DNA region that is crucial to the survival and implantation of mouse embryos...
