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/PRNewswire/ -- As the SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates, new variants emerge that can better evade immunity and spread more widely. This causes an ongoing race, in...

Spotlight Featured Researcher Harmit Malik studies the competition between genes and proteins with opposing functions that drive evolutionary change.

Fred Hutch virologist Dr. Julie Overbaugh was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for her contributions to HIV research.

Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation A team of prominent scientists has doubled down on its controversial hypothesis that genetic bits of the pandemic coronavirus can integrate into our chromosomes and stick around long after the infection is over. If they are right—skeptics have argued that their results are likely lab artifacts—the insertions could explain the rare finding that people can recover from COVID-19 but then test positive for SARS-CoV-2 again months later. The team, however, doesn't yet have direct evidence of the integrations in infected...

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. A team of prominent scientists has doubled down on its controversial hypothesis that genetic bits of the pandemic coronavirus can integrate into our chromosomes and stick around long after the infection is over. If they are right—skeptics have argued that their results are likely lab artifacts—the insertions could explain the rare finding that people can recover from COVID-19 but then test positive for SARS-CoV-2 again months later. Stem cell biologist Rudolf Jaenisch and gene regulation specialist Richard Young...