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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...