New anti-HSV drug Pritelivir receives FDA approval: An 'oral treatment' option for existing drug-resistant herpes; note the differences in development and marketing concepts ...

The target population is adult immunocompromised patients with HSV mucocutaneous lesions that are refractory to treatment with acyclovir, valacyclovir, or famciclovir (proof of resistance is not ...
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These Bacterial "Zombies" Can Still Build DNA

Researchers found that enzymes released when bacteriophages burst bacterial cells can continue producing DNA in biofilms, ...

Zombie bacteria keep building DNA after death

Researchers at Aarhus University have discovered that bacteria can continue producing DNA after they die. And they have found ...
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Parvovirus B19 DNA More Frequent in Lupus Patients and Tracks with Disease Activity

A single-center case-control study in Egypt found parvovirus B19 DNA in 27.3% of systemic lupus erythematosus patients versus ...
Nature

An unexpected function of a cell-cycle enzyme might explain the toxic effects of its inhibitors

A previously unknown mechanism required for cells to start proliferating has been identified. A combination of mathematical modelling and cell-based experiments shows that the enzyme WEE1 switches off ...
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Archived DNA from German uranium miners confirms gene variants that shape radon-linked lung cancer risk

A study of archived DNA from 526 former WISMUT uranium miners with lung cancer found that mining radon exposure significantly ...

Adult Re-learning #4 | What was so amazing about the DNA double helix? Just by looking at the shape, we understood 'how it copies'

There was a time when a single-page paper revealed the 'way of copying' for living things.In 1953, James Watson and Francis ...

Hidden chromosome structures reveal greater complexity in how roundworms organize DNA

Almost every cell in our body contains around two meters (6.6 feet) of DNA, packed into a tiny nucleus. Yet for the cell to ...