Scientists have learned how plants keep viruses from being passed to their offspring, a finding that could ensure healthier crops. The discovery could also help reduce the transmission of diseases ...

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

A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

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 ...

Missed viruses In 2022, Babaian and his colleagues searched 5.7 million genomic samples archived in publicly available databases and identified almost 132,000 new RNA viruses 2.

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 ...

In fact, a new study by the Tuschl laboratory introduces a proof-of-concept for a novel class of antivirals that would target a type of enzyme essential not just to SARS, but also many RNA viruses ...

In a recent paper published in Science Translational Medicine, scientists report that a class of drugs, called RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, represent a major advancement in the treatment of ...