A genetic mutation passed from mother to children in families affected by schizophrenia has now been shown to completely ...

A recent study published in the PeerJ journal identified unique truncated open reading frame 8 (ORF8) proteins among severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequences. Study: An ...

Today’s clinicians use recombinant therapeutic proteins, such as monoclonal antibodies, to treat many diseases, from autoimmune disorders to cancer and beyond. Nonetheless, sequence variants (SVs), ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William A. Haseltine, Ph.D., covers genomics and regenerative medicine We are all wondering what comes next for the Covid pandemic ...

This is the third in a series on the Omicron variants. The rise of Omicron has come as a surprise. Many were hoping Delta would be the last in a chain of variants of increasing transmission and ...

It may be the most baffling quirk of COVID: What manifests as minor, flu-like symptoms in some individuals spirals into severe disease, disability, and even death in others. A new paper published in ...

There’s considerable discussion about whether COVID vaccines are responsible for the barrage of variants that keep hitting us. Is selective pressure driving this – like with bacteria and antibiotics?

Lara Herrero receives funding from NHMRC. We’ve now been living with COVID for well over four years. Although there’s still much to learn about SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) at least one ...

What is it? As the name suggests, nonribosomal peptide synthesis (NRPS) generates polypeptides sans ribosome. The resultant peptides, generally short oligomers of two to perhaps 48 residues, are not ...