From basic research to beneficial therapies
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
In mutating to evade immune detection, HIV becomes susceptible to detection by different antibodies, suggesting new strategies for vaccination.
Keith Campbell, a biologist who was part of the effort to clone Dolly the sheep, has passed away at the age of 58.
Monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus have a higher diversity of gut viruses, pointing to a possible role of the virome in SIV pathogenesis.
Researchers find that a deadly bacterial disease hitchhikes in people infected with the virus that causes AIDS to spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
An HIV drug can bind to and alter the function of an immune molecule, causing a dangerous reaction in patients with a particular allele.