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Creating new drugs is too slow and too expensive. A top exec at the $130...
The business of developing new drugs faces two "existential challenges," Amgen's research chief David Reese told Business Insider in a recent interview.Those are: How long it takes to take a drug from...
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The coronavirus mutates more slowly than the flu — which means a vaccine will...
Scientists around the world are racing to develop a vaccine for the new coronavirus, which has infected more than 467,000 people.All viruses, including this one, mutate over time. As they replicate,...
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Yes, the coronavirus mutates. But those tiny changes haven't affected how...
Scientists are tracking genetic errors, or mutations, in the coronavirus' genome to study its evolution over time. The virus has mutated as it spread worldwide, but the mutations haven't impacted how...
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A mutated coronavirus strain seems responsible for most of the world's...
Scientists track genetic errors, or mutations, in the coronavirus' genome to study its evolution over time.A preliminary study suggests a mutated coronavirus strain has become dominant worldwide and is...
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Scientists found an even closer match between the new coronavirus and a virus...
A fringe theory suggests the new coronavirus could have leaked from a Chinese research laboratory, but there's little evidence to support it.Multiple studies suggest the virus is most closely related...
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A mutated strain of the coronavirus has taken over the world. But there is...
Viruses (including the coronavirus) accumulate genetic errors, or mutations, over time. A mutated coronavirus strain — not the original one that emerged in China — has become dominant worldwide.A...
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No, the coronavirus isn't becoming more contagious or less deadly — it's...
Viruses like the coronavirus can change over time as they accumulate genetic errors, or mutations.A group of Italian doctors suggested the coronavirus has changed to become less lethal.Some research...
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No, the coronavirus did not recently mutate to become more transmissible:...
Summary List PlacementNo pathogen on Earth is being more closely monitored than the coronavirus.Scientists have been regularly collecting and genetically sequencing samples of the virus to track how...
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Millions of minks have been killed since June because they can pass the...
Summary List PlacementDanish government officials and scientists announced Wednesday that they'd identified a mutated strain of the new coronavirus in minks. The animals passed the strain to a dozen...
View ArticleWhy some people go gray in their 20s, according to a dermatologist
Summary List PlacementFollowing is a transcript of the video.Graham Flanagan: Look at that silver fox. So distinguished, so sophisticated. Wow! But what if I told you that this guy was a millennial?...
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Life-threatening COVID-19 cases may be linked to 5 key genes, a study found....
Summary List PlacementA growing body of research is highlighting a select set of genes that may explain why some people develop more severe COVID-19 cases than others. Certain genes, for instance,...
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The coronavirus was circulating in Europe and China months before officials...
Summary List PlacementAlmost exactly one year has passed since the World Health Organization announced the first confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.Yet the virus' origin and the true timeline of...
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When the coronavirus runs rampant, mutations and new strains are more likely,...
Summary List PlacementThe surest way to boost the chances of a worrisome coronavirus mutation: let it spread unchecked."More infected people means more opportunity for the development of mutations....
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The contagious coronavirus variant identified in the UK has probably been...
Summary List PlacementCases of a new, more transmissible coronavirus strain that was first detected in the UK have been reported over the last week in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, and New...
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Identical twins don't always have identical genes, research shows — a new...
Summary List PlacementFor decades, researchers believed that monozygotic twins — twins that form when a fertilized egg splits in two — were born with essentially the same genetic codes. Hence the...
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The US sequences 0.01% of its coronavirus cases — a glaring Achilles' heel in...
Summary List PlacementThousands of coronavirus strains circulate all the time.Each version of the virus is separated by a handful of tiny changes in its genome. To keep tabs on these strains, and...
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From mammoth teeth, scientists just pulled DNA that's more than 1 million...
Summary List PlacementMore than 1 million years ago, mammoths traversed an ice-covered Siberia. The teeth and tusks they left behind were preserved in the region's permanently frozen ground.Researchers...
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Unlike the Easter Bunny, these rabbits can't hop. Scientists have solved the...
Summary List PlacementSauteur d'Alfort rabbits, also known as Alfort jumping rabbits, have a peculiar way of moving.Instead of hopping on their hind legs, like other bunnies, the Sauteur d'Alfort...
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Even if the coronavirus did leak from a Wuhan lab, that wouldn't necessarily...
Summary List PlacementTwo weeks ago, President Joe Biden asked the US intelligence community to redouble its efforts to find out how the pandemic started: Did the coronavirus jump from animals to...
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At most, just 7% of the human genome is unique to our species. We share most...
Summary List PlacementHumans like to think they're special, but our genes suggest that's far from the case.No more than 7% of the human genome is unique to Homo sapiens, according to a study published...
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