In biology textbooks and beyond, the human genome and DNA therein typically are taught in only one dimension. While it can be ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Around 5,000 years ago, humans discovered that they could domesticate animals. So, as it were, they adopted animals like cows ...

DNA from Beethoven's hair, snipped as keepsakes by his admirers, has finally orchestrated a genetic encore that's hitting all the right notes with scientists.Were he alive today, Beethoven might have ...

Chronic hepatitis B infection is primarily driven by persistence of HBV cccDNA and integration of HBV DNA into the human genome in liver cells, the primary source of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg ...

Furthermore, PBGENE-HBV was not distributed to germ cells at any of the analyzed timepoints, supporting the conclusion that there is no risk of heritable genome edits.

Atomic force microscopy images show hepatitis B DNA in its natural state (left) and a zoomed-in look at how it wraps around human histones during an infection (right). The research team determined ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by MSK, Weill Cornell Medicine, and The ...