MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine was 91.6% effective in preventing people from developing COVID-19, according to peer-reviewed results from its late-stage clinical trial published...

Scientists have identified a group of drugs that may help stop a leading cause of vision loss after making an unexpected discovery that overturns a fundamental belief about DNA. The drugs, known as Nucleoside...

Viruses are small obligate intracellular parasites with either a RNA or DNA genome that are surrounded by a protective protein coat and transfer their genetic material to infected cells. Lentivirus represents...

As coronavirus cases continue to spread  worldwide, you may be searching to upgrade your face mask collection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends wearing a mask made with...

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Knockout mice are animals that have been genetically modified for so that one or more genes are not expressed, or “knocked out.” Studies are then carried out on the mice to determine what...

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Origin of cell lines – a woman named Henrietta Lacks Image Credit: Koliadzynska Iryna/Shutterstock.com Today, cell lines derived from animals including humans are grown and used for research in...

Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) is a technique invented in 1984 by the English scientist Alec Jeffreys during research into hereditary diseases. It is used for the analysis of unique...

Protein folding is a process by which a polypeptide chain folds to become a biologically active protein in its native 3D structure. Protein structure is crucial to its function. Folded proteins are held...