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Researchers from the University of Hong Kong have discovered that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common human virus closely ...

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The FDA's approval of the first CRISPR-Cas9–based gene therapy marked a major milestone in biomedicine, validating genome editing as a promising treatment strategy for disorders like sickle cell ...

At MIT, one genome researcher is testing a different approach. Bin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and the leader of MIT's Zhang Lab, is using artificial intelligence to "unfold" complex ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.