One Tiny Change May Explain How Viruses Jump From Bats to Humans

Scientists found that one tiny genetic change may determine whether a bat virus stays in bats or becomes a human threat. Most ...

Study unveils new genetic screen for understanding human development

A new genetic screening method allows researchers to efficiently modulate individual genes across entire tissues and provides ...
Harvard Medical School

Studying Viral Proteins on a Whole New Scale

A new tool has just vastly broadened the scale at which researchers can study these proteins, promising to speed basic ...

Hidden pathway drives COVID-19 infection, triggers damaging inflammation in the lungs

New research has uncovered a hidden pathway that allows COVID-19 to infect the immune system and trigger damaging ...

How proteins are inserted into cell membranes

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have—in collaboration with colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian ...

Our Bacteria Are Talking. We’ve Just Begun to Understand What They’re Saying.

The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

Creating synthetic life in a lab? SpudCell falls short of the goal, but raises even more useful questions

Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...
Human Rights Watch

African Union

Bankole Adeoye (R), African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security speaks with a delegate during a meeting of the AU Peace and Security Council at the AU headquarters in Addis ...