For over a century, scientists have analyzed the vast microbial world within the human body. They’ve found bacteria, fungi, ...

Chinese scientists have developed a gene-editing system for plants that draws on material from deadly viruses such as dengue ... uses messenger RNA, which does not have that problem.

Electron cryo-microscopy and image reconstruction of PaV particles clearly show the dodecahedral RNA cage. Figure 4: The extended N-terminus of subunit A. In many T = 3 plant viruses (for example ...

Before the COVID pandemic, wastewater sampling wasn't routinely done for public health purposes. But as the case number ...

As highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in the U.S., posing serious threats to dairy and poultry farms, both farmers and public health experts need better ways to monitor for ...

Bird flu. With that diagnosis in mind, one of Russo’s colleagues tried to get some bovine samples tested for H5N1, but the ...

Another hemorrhagic threat is Lassa Fever, a virus in West Africa infecting between 100,000 and 300,000 people annually, ...

With over half the cells in the human body being bacterial rather than human, and over 99% of the genes in the human body ...

prevent recognition of long RNA as a virus by human cells and we think the same is true in plants,” Martienssen said. Some viruses have effectively slipped behind the immune defenses by incorporating ...