Research into transcription factors deepen understanding of the 'language' of the genome, offering insights into human development.

An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped ...

An international team of researchers led by Professor Huaijun Zhou from the UC Davis Department of Animal Science has created ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

The Egyptian Fayoumi is thought to be a particularly ancient breed of chicken. An international team has now developed the first map of gene regulation in chickens, potentially opening the way to find ...

Although most of the reported human infections from the USA so far 1,2 have been mild, the virus can change its profile rapidly. To reduce mortality and morbidity from influenza in humans, vaccines ...

Otto and co-author Sean Edgerton, a PhD student focused on genomics and infectious diseases at the University of British ...

Low vaccination rates for influenza viruses and the lack of an HSV vaccine underscore the need for a new approach to reduce viral transmission. Researchers have now used a clinical-grade antiviral ...

Veterinary experts nationwide have a variety of hypotheses for new and puzzling test results from cow milk being analyzed for ...

In the past two years, a disease-causing strain of avian flu, known as H5N1 or bird flu, has impacted 1,046 flocks across the ...

A whole-genome sequence has detected highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in dairy cattle in Nevada according to the ...

This article discusses what H3N2 flu is, as well as its symptoms and how it's diagnosed and treated. H3N2 flu is a subtype of influenza A. Although there are multiple types of influenza, only ...