Ancient viral DNA in bacteria helps block new infections, offering a potential path to fight antibiotic resistance.

Human DNA is not always making us function in ways we understand. Some of our genome is just there, and we’re not sure what it does. In fact, 8% of our DNA are viruses our ancestors caught one day and ...

Collaborating researchers have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the intricate defense systems of bacteriophages ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman (right) and a modern human (left). Photo: Joe McNally (Getty Images) Neanderthal remains from the Altai Mountains contain human viruses, a team of researchers ...

For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

The findings overturn the long-held idea that most types of RNA viruses are incapable of DNA integration and raise another safety concern in the use of RNA-based gene therapy. "It's a very interesting ...