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The new Dogma meets Thomas Kuhn’s definition of a paradigm shift. The DNA/RNA Dogma is sufficiently unprecedented to attract ...

An international team of scientists from Australia and China has uncovered invaluable genetic and genomic information in the ...

Specific ancient viral DNA sequences in the human genome are linked to genetic risk for multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic ...

Evaluating the speed at which viruses spread and transmit across host populations is critical to mitigating disease outbreaks. A study published ...