In the evolutionary arms race between pathogens and hosts, genetic elements known as transposons are regularly recruited as assault weapons for cellular defense. Effective gene editing programs rely ...

Eugene V. Koonin, PhD, senior investigator in the Computational Biology Branch of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Intramural Research Program, has been elected to the National Academy of ...

The COVID pandemic continues to have a significant impact on the scientific community; while it slowed scientific progress in some research areas, it sparked technology development in others. As ...

According to Eugene Koonin, the more the virus is adjusted to the current conditions, the more difficult it is for the strain to evolve NOVOSIBIRSK, October 7. /TASS/. The Delta variant of COVID-19, ...

The statement that “the jelly-roll fold is common to most ssRNA eukaryotic viruses” is inaccurate. Even apart from the negative-strand RNA viruses, none of which is known to possess this fold, most of ...