Researchers discovered that HSV-1 (herpes simplex virus) actively reshapes the 3D layout of human DNA within hours of ...

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion.

Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a ...

Researchers have discovered that the herpes virus reshapes the human genome’s architecture, rearranging its shape in ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to ...

Macquarie University researchers have discovered a naturally occurring protein found in human cells plays a powerful role in ...

As a postdoc, Komor found a way to achieve gene-editing with higher efficiencies and a lower incidence of indels by avoiding double-stranded breaks. She called this new class of tools “base editing” ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating ... David Porubsky has previously disclosed a patent application (no. EP19169090) relevant to Strand-seq. Zev Kronenberg, ...