This is SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It's a type of RNA virus, some of which mutate practically every time they replicate. SARS-CoV-2 is actually one of the rare RNA viruses that ...

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 ...

The findings overturn the long-held idea that most types of RNA viruses are incapable of DNA integration and raise another safety concern in the use of RNA-based gene therapy. "It's a very interesting ...

There are three basic types of influenza viruses: A, B, and C ... in which coding sequences are located on individual RNA strands, genomes are readily shuffled in host cells that are infected ...

The cause of deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, were finally revealed. The actor had died of heart disease, while his wife suffered from a rare but deadly disease ...

This video investigates the idea that RNA was the precursor to life. Virus Wars – This video investigates ... Ask students to discuss the types of skills they might need to develop to become ...

In (+)-stranded RNA viruses, RNA is the sole genetic material ... a steady-state enzymatic activity comparable to the wild type enzyme 9. Moreover, the last 55 residues of the protein do not ...