In September 1970, Janet Mertz joined the biochemistry department at Stanford University. She was one of only six new graduate students in the department and the first female one admitted in nine ...

Enzymes that cut DNA at specific sites are called endonucleases; these enzymes play many roles in genomic replication, fidelity, and defense. The initial discovery of restriction endonucleases in the ...

Errol Friedberg is a molecular biologist and emeritus professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is author of A Biography of Paul Berg: The Recombinant DNA Controversy ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers developed a human endogenous retrovirus (HERV)-enveloped recombinant baculoviral deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) vaccine to target the ...