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 ...
Endogenous retroviruses, ancient viruses embedded throughout mammalian genomes, might help RNA viruses permanently integrate into the genomes of their hosts ...
This is SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It's a type of RNA virus, some of which mutate practically every time they replicate. SARS-CoV-2 is actually one of the rare RNA viruses that ...
The replication of the Nipah virus's genetic material in infected cells has been demonstrated for the first time by ...
When a mother plant with a virus makes, for example, 100 seeds ... These genes operate in what's called the RNA interference pathway. Genetic information in cells is converted from DNA into ...
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 ...