Cancer occurs through multiple steps that resurrect ancient cellular functions, suggests new model 05/20/2021 Health News, In spite of decades of research, cancer remains an enigma. Conventional wisdom holds that cancer...
In mutant variants, has the coronavirus shown its best tricks? 03/31/2021 Health News, LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The rapid rise in different parts of the world of deadly, more...
World's largest resource of genome variation data on malaria parasites released 02/24/2021 Health News, Genome variation data on more than 7,000 malaria parasites from 28 endemic countries is released...
Evolution of the spike gene of SARS-CoV-2 for human adaptation 02/22/2021 Health News, The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected over 111...
The evolution of a tumor 01/23/2020 Health News, The results of evolution are often awe-inspiring—from the long neck of the giraffe to the...
Are the ‘viral’ agents of MS, ALS and schizophrenia buried in our genome? Viruses hid themselves in your ancestors’ DNA; now they’re waking up 07/11/2019 Health News, What if the missing 'environmental' factor in some of our deadliest neurological diseases were really...
Civil War plant medicines blast drug-resistant bacteria in lab tests: Confederate field hospitals turned to traditional remedies under Union blockade 05/23/2019 Health News, During the height of the Civil War, the Confederate Surgeon General commissioned a guide to...
Genetic code of WWI soldier’s cholera mapped 04/10/2019 Health News, The oldest publicly-available strain of the cholera-causing bacterial species, Vibrio cholerae, has had its genetic...
Scientists Have Created Synthetic DNA with 4 Extra Letters 02/22/2019 Health News, A couple billion years ago, four molecules danced into the elegant double-helix structure of DNA,...
New techniques better determine how ancient viral DNA influences human genes 12/14/2018 Health News, New laboratory techniques can identify which of our genes are influenced by DNA snippets that...