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Burr and Auckland et. al develop MitoPerturb-Seq, which combines single-cell screening with multiomics to link nuclear genes to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) dynamics. They unveil core regulators of mtDNA...

Nature - Host control of persistent Epstein–Barr virus infection

Viral DNA that is usually dismissed when sequencing the human genome could help to uncover useful information about complex diseases.

Scientists have identified 22 genes that increase the risk of conditions like lupus, stroke, and rheumatoid arthritis in patients who’ve caught the virus behind mono, an illness known as the “kissing ...

Population-scale WGS reveals genetic determinants of persistent EBV DNA, linking immune regulation—especially antigen processing and MHC class II variation—to EBV persistence and heterogeneous di...

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Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, Chair of the Molecular Pharmacology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI); Evnin Family Chair in Molecular Pharmacology and Attending Physician on the Leukemia Service at Me...

The universities follow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University in rejecting the Trump administration’s proposal that would require sweeping changes.

Mitochondrial synthesis of adenosine triphosphate is essential for eukaryotic life but is dependent on the cooperation of two genomes: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). mtDNA mutates ~15 times as...

The extracellular space is a critical environment for discriminating self versus non-self nucleic acids and initiating the appropriate immune responses through signaling cascades to relay information ...

Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.

The government is funding respected scholars to study autism’s causes, at a time when experts say it’s also sowing misinformation about the same topic.