Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus harbored by fruit bats. It can be transmitted to pigs and humans, infect people through contaminated food, and can travel directly from person to person via droplets.
Genetics tools have advanced significantly in recent decades, and have allowed scientist to sequence all of the genetic material they find in any sample. That has enabled researchers to discover giant ...
Toward the goal of efficient editing of farm animals for genetic improvements, this study explores an upgraded form of nuclease PE (uPEn). Based on the resolved structure of the NiV polymerase L-P ...
The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...
The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of biology.
An ancient viral infection may have given animals the tools to become fast, coordinated and smart, a study has found. According to a paper published Thursday in Cell, complex nervous systems arose in ...
In cells, ribosomes (shown as grey blobs) read RNA messages and convert the information into proteins. The researchers hypothesize that during infection, one component of the ribosome, eL40 (green ...
The protein shell of a virus is an assembly of subunits. In simple viruses the subunits themselves may specify the shape of the shell. Complex viruses seem to be formed on an interior core, or ...
Researchers recently discovered that a virus, FloV-SA2, encodes one of the proteins needed to make ribosomes, the central engines in all cells that translate genetic information into proteins, the ...
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