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

Obelisks sort of look like viruses but unlike viruses, they don’t have an outer protein coat. Their structure is reminiscent ...

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.

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 ...

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological ... a means to transport not only viral particles, but also RNA, proteins and mitochondria, a cell's main source of energy, from ...

However, viruses are dynamic -- constantly evolving and changing shape, which can make designing antiviral treatments a challenge. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email ...

Influenza viruses cause tens of millions of illnesses and thousands of deaths in the United States each year. There are two players every flu season: influenza Type A and Type B. Influenza A tends ...

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 ...

In a recent review published in the journal Virology, researchers examined the increasing diversity of human viruses, their epidemiological significance, and preventive strategies to mitigate ...

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