This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the sixth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...

Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are viruses that infect bacteria. Using phages therapeutically could be very useful in ...

The RNA genome is then packaged very compactly into new virus particles that are released from the cell to infect more cells. One viral protein, called the nucleocapsid protein (N), is particularly ...

CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—continues to pose a global health threat, driven by new variants and its ability to ...

Scientists discovered that hepatitis A viral replication requires specific interactions between the human protein ZCCHC14 and a group of enzymes called TENT4 poly(A) polymerases, and they used a ...

A new, nano-scale look at how the SARS-CoV-2 virus replicates in cells may offer greater precision in drug development, a Stanford University team reports in Nature Communications. Using advanced ...

While early research suggested that CRISPR-Cas9 effectors can inhibit the replication of single-stranded RNA viruses with DNA intermediates in mammalian cells, stealth start-up Carver Bioscience has ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 50 (December 13, 2022), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) Mammalian reovirus (reovirus) is a multilayered, turreted ...

A new study uncovers how a protein, APOBEC3B, could protects cells against many different types of RNA viruses like respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), SARS-CoV2, influenza virus, poliovirus and ...