New precision genome editing technologies are transforming the therapeutic landscape for patients with certain cancers and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for effective therapeutic agents against SARS-CoV-2. Although vaccines helped control the spread of the virus, the emergence of new variants ...

To assess when the mutations occurred, the researchers examined the activity of an enzyme called activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which initiates somatic hypermutation. By manipulating ...

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Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Health San ...

1 Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China 2 Department of Critical Care Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University ...