The synthetic bacterium, named Syn57, has the most radically compressed genetic code ever built, opening the door to future ...

That's one of the reasons that RNA viruses have been attractive candidates for gene therapy and vaccines: no risk of permanent integration. The cells that had this DNA insertion were so rare, however, ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant ...

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 B virus, a killer of more than one million people each year, is a notoriously wily virus, often lingering and ...

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 ...

Viruses are entities that have to infect other cells in order to replicate. They may have genomes that are made of DNA or RNA. We are still discovering new types of RNA viruses, as shown in two new ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus ...

Individually tailored RNA or DNA-based molecules are able to reliably fight off viral infections in plants, according to a new study. The researchers were able to fend off a common virus using the ...

A new deep learning model, LucaProt, has detected over 251,000 new RNA virus species from global ecosystems, revealing unprecedented viral diversity in places like Antarctic sediment and extreme ...