In principle, mRNA vaccines are ideal for health emergencies as they can be quickly mass produced using a template. The problem is that current cell-based template production methods take too long, ...

It's the most common sexually transmitted infection, but it's also preventable thanks to the vaccine Gardasil-9. Yet online, misinformation runs rampant about the vaccine, which is also known for ...

Shares of Merck slid Tuesday after the drugmaker surprised Wall Street with a lower-than-expected 2025 sales forecast due partly to a pause in shipments of one of its top-selling products to China.

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

A high-quality genome assembly of Silene latifolia was generated by researchers at CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly led to the development of the first generation of live-attenuated vaccines. The first inactivated influenza vaccine was ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Until recently, few would have questioned whether two tools, in particular — GenBank, the world’s largest repository of full genetic sequences, and the Sequence Read Archive, which comprises ...

With 15 product lines each generating over $100 million in annual revenue, the company provides medicines, vaccines, genetic tests, diagnostics, biodevices, and numerous other precision animal ...

This article examines viral and non-viral vectors in gene therapy, highlighting their mechanisms, advantages, and limitations ...