Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

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

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

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 ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

Precision Biosciences' ARCUS platform offers high precision and versatility, supporting in vivo gene editing therapies, and ...

Screening for HIV, HBV, HCV, and Treponema pallidum was conducted using the Cobas e 601 system (Roche Diagnostics). A 100 μL volume of each donor’s plasma was utilized for viral RNA extraction with ...

Environments are littered with the DNA of the creatures that inhabit them. Analyzing it could provide a real-time view of how our planet is changing. When you purchase through links on our site ...

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). Disrupting this process in an ...

However, I was fascinated to discover that viruses like hepatitis B hijack epigenetic mechanisms, even using human DNA-packaging proteins to regulate their activity.” Not long after, study first ...