New England Biolabs (NEB®) announced today that they have released a novel, thermostable reverse transcriptase, WarmStart® RTx Reverse Transcriptase, specifically designed for nucleic acid detection.

At the 12th International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop, held June 10-14, 2003, in Los Cabos, Mexico, investigators from around the world provided the latest results from studies of resistance topics ...

Clin Drug Invest. 2007;27(8):509-531. Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) can be divided into four different classes according to their modes of action: nucleoside or nucleotide reverse transcriptase ...

The study introduced LIME-seq, a new non-invasive technique capable of detecting RNA modifications at a detailed level across ...

HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors have long been central to antiretroviral therapy, effectively impeding the enzyme responsible for converting viral RNA into DNA – a pivotal step in HIV ...

HIV’s Tat protein blocks autophagy in macrophages, letting Mtb thrive. This may explain why HIV patients face higher TB risk even on ART.

Viral reverse transcriptase (RT) plays a critical role in replication (e.g., retroviruses, that reverse transcribe RNA templates into complementary DNA) and genome mutations (e.g., ...

Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia and affects more than a tenth of Americans aged 65 and older. The disease has proven difficult to develop new treatments for, and available ...

Junk DNA” may hold the key to treating tough cancers. Existing drugs exploit weaknesses in cells with gene mutations. Researchers at King’s College London have identified a promising strategy for ...

Promega Corporation has entered a strategic partnership with Watchmaker Genomics to license a novel engineered reverse transcriptase. Designed for enhanced accuracy and sensitivity in RNA analysis, ...

The error rate of a promising gene-editing tool can be reduced up to 60-fold by introducing mutations that change where the ...