Here's what we know To examine possible viruses, researchers analyzed 35,000 water samples taken from all oceans throughout the world. Samples included plankton, which are known to carry RNA viruses.

A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may disrupt how carbon and nutrients are recycled in the ocean, potentially altering ...

Hepatitis D “virus” is a virus in name only. Underneath the hood, it more closely resembles viroids and virusoids: it is a small circular RNA that, due to high sequence complementarity, folds ...

"When sequencing RNA from a human lung sample, for example, you capture all RNA—primarily human, but also that of any viruses infecting human cells," says former graduate student Laura Luebbert ...

The innate immune system is the body's first line of defence against pathogens like bacteria or viruses. TRIM25 is a protein that is important in the innate immune response against RNA viruses ...

Only five of the more than 90 viruses the team found had been previously reported; most were newly discovered. The team then wanted to see if there were signs of viruses multiplying in the worms.

Kay Choi, a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, has been researching the virus since 2010. She began her research as an associate professor at the University of Texas ...

Their study shows that RNA viruses can live in high-temperature environments (70℃-80℃), where no RNA viruses have been observed before. In addition to the two known RNA virus kingdoms, a third ...