They say that change takes time. Well, that's not the case for RNA. The small biological molecule acts like a switchboard ...

Liquid-like condensates as replication factories have been extensively studied in other viruses, including the rabies and measles viruses. In this study, the researchers investigated whether ...

To conceptualize this transformation, let's examine the replication of retroviruses, the family of viruses to which HIV belongs. This process very closely mirrors the movement of an important ...

Protein complex in bacterial cell membrane acts like a rotary motor to recruit DNA-degrading enzymes to defend against phage ...

Shah is senior author of the team’s published paper in mBio, titled “Microcephaly protein ANKLE2 promotes Zika virus replication.” In the paper, the team concluded that in combination with ...

By dissecting the molecular interplay between the virus and its host, the researchers identified novel strategies that HIV-1 employs to ensure its replication while suppressing the host's cellular ...

Technical advances have made it possible to produce reassortant strains between wild-type viruses (for their antigenic properties) and culture-adapted strains (for their replication properties).