‘Hypermutators’ Drive Pathogenic Fungi to Evolve More Rapidly Fungus rapidly shrugs off challenge of anti-fungal drugs DURHAM, N.C. -- Mutations tend to get a bad rap, and deservedly so. A single defect in our DNA...
Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs May Fight Infectious Disease Typhoid, Ebola use cholesterol to enter cells That statin you’ve been taking to lower your risk of heart attack or stroke may one day...
Scientists Map Sex Chromosome Evolution in Fungi Gene swaps at the centromere had been thought impossible DURHAM, NC -- Biologically speaking, nearly every species on Earth has two opposite sexes, male...
New Vaccine Production Could Improve Flu Shot Accuracy Influenza Virus Prevented from Adapting to Chicken Egg Host DURHAM, N.C. -- A new way of producing the seasonal flu vaccine could speed up the process and...
Microbes Seen Controlling Action of Host’s Genes Intestines' living tenants muck up molecular machinery to influence health All animals -- from sea sponges to modern-day humans -- evolved in a world already teeming with...
Cancer-Causing Virus Masters Cell's Replication and Immortality Epstein-Barr virus steers the B-cell to hide in plain sight Viruses are notorious for taking over their host’s operations and using them to their own...
New Gene Interaction Appears to be Associated with Increased MS Risk The finding could open the way to the development of more accurate tests for risk of multiple sclerosis
Microbes Evolved to Colonize Different Parts of the Human Body Geology software used to measure relative abundance of bugs in and on the body As the human species evolved over the last six million years, our resident microbes did the same...
