Viruses are masters at taking over our cells: They disable our defenses and hijack the cellular machinery in order to multiply successfully. For example, the herpes simplex virus 1, which causes ...
Besides serving as food for certain microbes, viruses perform some helpful functions that remain poorly understood. A ciliate, a type of single-celled microbe, swims next to Sphagnum moss, amplified ...
Scientists have long known that a significant portion of the human genome is made up of the remnants of ancient viruses; these sequences are a subset of transposable elements known as endogenous ...
Scientists have grown a human embryo-like structure in a lab which replicates very early human development - including the production of blood stem cells. The lab-grown embryo model could help ...
The Bengaluru-based Centre for Stem Cell Research (CSCR), a unit of BRIC-inStem, will organise a two-day 10th Annual Cell and Gene Therapy Symposium (CGTS), at Christian Medical College (CMC) campus ...
An invasive species of tick that has the ability to reproduce without needing a male tick has been found in Kansas for the first time. The Asian longhorned tick, or ALHT, is an "exotic, invasive tick ...
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Ulster face the Bulls in round three of the URC on Saturday at Affidea Stadium (KO 7.45, live, Premier Sports). Summer signings Juarno Augustus and Sam Crean get their first starts for Ulster, while ...