The hunt for an AIDS vaccine has lasted 30 years, with many failures. 1 The fact that the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) virus continuously adapts and mutates results in broad genetic ...

According to the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet, diabetes affects nearly 26 million Americans, 95% of whom suffer from type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). 1 A 2014 report published by the ...

During the last few decades, advances in molecular biology have allowed the increasingly rapid sequencing of large portions of genomes. The plethora of information, resulting from programmes such as ...

The novice user of bioinformatics tools needs a guide that answers several fundamental questions — what are these tools designed for and what can they do; what are their limitations; how does one ...