Genetic determinants of host- and virus-derived insertions for hepatitis E virus replication. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49219-8 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's what we know To examine possible viruses, researchers analyzed 35,000 water samples taken from all oceans throughout the world. Samples included plankton, which are known to carry RNA viruses.

A new study has identified potential broad-spectrum antiviral agents that can target multiple families of RNA viruses that continue to pose a significant threat for future pandemics.

Study: Highly Diverse Arenaviruses in Neotropical Bats, Brazil. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock Background Of the four genera present in the virus family Arenaviridae, Mammarenavirus is ...

Where a virus such as SARS-CoV-2 is made up of nearly 30,000 nucleotides —the basic building blocks of DNA and RNA— viroids only contain between 220 to 450 nucleotides.