When an antivirus program sounds the alarm, it always triggers a moment of shock in the user. But the warning is not always ...

Preliminary results from a small trial offer the clearest evidence yet that the brain disease’s progression can be slowed. A one-time gene therapy can markedly slow the progression of Huntington’s ...

For the first time, scientists have found a way to dramatically slow Huntington’s disease, an inherited brain disorder that has long been considered untreatable. A groundbreaking gene therapy called ...

Huntington disease (HD) has finally found its first successful treatment. Biotech company uniQure has announced positive top-line results from its Phase I/II trial of AMT-130. It is a one-time gene ...

For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even curing—the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve. But ...

Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing ...

Scientists have developed what they call a “virus cocktail” to fight superbugs in a major advance for infectious disease treatment. Researchers from Monash University and The Alfred, in Melbourne, ...

Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the cellular gateway it uses could transform prevention and treatment. Read the paper: LRP8 is a ...

It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...

If you feel like friendships are harder to make or maintain than ever before, you’re right. The pandemic did us no favors when it came to building and maintaining close friendships. While we may have ...