A tiny infectious particle that can invade a cell.
A primate-specific gene known as BC200 has been found to have 'jumped' into a human virus from the pox family...
The discovery of a new gene-targeting system used by viruses to fend off competitors gives a glimpse into the possible evolutionary origin of CRISPR, and may offer new opportunities for genome editing technologies...
Gene therapy designed to deliver a healthy copy of the ALPK3 gene can restore heart function, raising the possibility of a future treatment for some forms of inherited cardiomyopathy...
A six-year-old girl has died following an experimental genome editing treatment, prompting an investigation into the clinical trial by the university involved...
An experimental epigenome-editing therapy has shown a favourable safety profile and increased lean muscle mass in patients with a rare muscular dystrophy in an early-stage trial...
Three-dimensional cerebral organoids suggest that Ebola virus can establish long-term infection in the human brain...
A new CRISPR-based approach has been designed to selectively eliminate human cells with disease-causing genes in vitro...
An artificial intelligence model trained on genomic data can predict disease-causing mutations and design synthetic viruses...
Professor Jim Al-Khalili interviews Professor George Church in this episode of The Life Scientific. From bringing back mammoths to the Human Genome Project... but does he ask probing enough questions? Davy Tennison finds out for BioNews...
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