The findings, published online today in Virology Journal by principal investigator Pascal Gagneux, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and colleagues, could ...

It's part vacation retreat, part blood drive, part zoo — and it could be the future of chimpanzee research, if not the species itself. With wild chimp populations plummeting — some populations by 80 ...

Pascal Gagneux, one of the few laboratory scientists who has studied wild chimpanzees, is a walking encyclopedia of chimpanzee/human differences. Ever since scientists began studying chimpanzees, they ...

Researchers have shown for the first time how influenza A viruses snip through a protective mucus net to both infect respiratory cells and later cut their way out to infect other cells. Researchers at ...

We age in part thanks to "friendly fire" from the immune system—inflammation and chemically active molecules called reactive oxygen species that help fight infection, but also wreak molecular havoc ...

Children born using IVF could face serious health problems later in life, a scientist claims. Assisted reproduction is an “evolutionary experiment” that could end up proving as big a health disaster ...

Assisted reproductive technologies like in-vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a boon for many couples who face reproductive problems such as infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome, erectile ...