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 ...

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 ...

Jerold Chun, MD, PhD, is a professor in the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Sanford Burnham Prebys and the senior and corresponding author of the manuscript. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common ...

Prime editing uses CRISPR-guided reverse transcription to enable the programmable introduction of any desired base substitution or small insertion or deletion. One challenge for using prime editing ...

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.