As viral vaccines are increasingly used to meet global health needs, the pharmaceutical industry is manufacturing larger ...

In contrast, lentiviruses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) do not depend on host ... in the virion with two copies of genomic viral RNA in the form of a dimer. In the cytoplasm of ...

Helen Lazear, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology, and Qi Zhang, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and biophysics, have discovered that a type of RNA in Zika virus ...

Viruses, then, may have existed before bacteria, archaea, or eukaryotes (Figure 4; Prangishvili et al. 2006). Most biologists now agree that the very first replicating molecules consisted of RNA ...