Rabies is notoriously difficult to treat once symptoms begin, and that challenge starts at the molecular level. Unlike many ...

The other possibility is that the quasi-double stranded secondary structure of hepatitis D virus —a result of 70% sequence self-complementarity — is mistaken for DNA, thereby hijacking RNA ...

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 ...

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

Researchers have identified how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, builds a structure called the RNA cap that's critical for successful viral replication. The finding could lead to new ...

To do so, they first labeled the viral RNA and replication-associated proteins with fluorescent molecules of different colors. But imaging glowing RNA alone would result in fuzzy blobs in a ...

The enzyme methyltransferase MTr1 provides the cap structure of cellular RNA. Prof. Kato's team found out how much influenza viruses depend on the activity of this enzyme for their replication and ...

Other RNA viruses include measles, mumps, influenza and SARS-CoV-2. RNA molecules in our body have a protecting group of DNA building blocks at their end known as a cap.