A new mutated variant of Mpox has been identified in Democratic Republic of Congo, with health authorities concerned over ...

Over half of all the cancer genomes that researchers have sequenced share one characteristic: They contain mutational signatures associated with a family of enzymes called APOBEC3, suggesting a role ...

The mpox virus is currently rampaging through the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 2,000 cases since the start of the year ...

Health officials have raised alarms over a newly identified, highly transmissible mpox variant, suspected of driving a surge ...

Chelico's lab studies immune responses to HIV, particularly a family of proteins called APOBEC3 which cause mutations in the HIV virus. Her research and others' show that the virus uses a ...

In other developments, the recently identified clade 1a virus that has the APOBEC3 mutation, linked to more transmissibility, ...

A NEW mutant strain of mpox discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be better at spreading between people, ...

Officials are worried because the new version carries a mutation known as APOBEC3 which makes it more infectious than its predecessor. Scientists say the same mutation has already been seen in ...

The mutation is calledAPOBEC3. Dr Ngongo said: “We have seen a new variant of Clade 1a with APOBEC3 that has been detected, and unlike the old 1a variant, this one has got high potential for ...