Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection continues to pose a major global health threat. The virus evades immune responses and antiviral therapies due to the persistence of covalently closed circular ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the leading cause of cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver-related death globally.1,2 The highest prevalence is found in low-income and middle-income countries ...

Precision BioSciences (DTIL) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or FDA has cleared the Investigational New Drug application ...

Hepatitis B can lead to liver disease. But we can prevent and manage this viral infection. Here’s what we know about the ...

and HBV DNA loss to below the limits of detection in 9% to 10% of participants with chronic HBV infection. That is below the 30% rate reported at an interim stage of the study at the International ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content. The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the ...

The US joins Moldova, Hong Kong, and New Zealand as countries to greenlight the company's Phase I trial of PBGENE-HBV.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains an urgent global health concern, affecting hundreds of millions of people and significantly heightening the risk ...

As December 2022 closed out, Pfizer announced positive top-line results from its phase 3 BENEGENE-2 study evaluating fidanacogene elaparvovec (SPK-9001), its investigational gene therapy for ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection against H5N1, and children would benefit more from ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa is safe and ...

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and ...