Endogenous retroviruses, ancient viruses embedded throughout mammalian genomes, might help RNA viruses permanently integrate into the genomes of their hosts ...

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 ...

The replication of the Nipah virus's genetic material in infected cells has been demonstrated for the first time by ...

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 ...

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 ...