The dengue virus has a roughly spherical shape. Inside the virus is the nucleocapsid, which is made of the viral genome and C proteins. The nucleocapsid is surrounded by a membrane called the ...

The central dogma of biology defines the flow of genetic information: It describes how proteins are made from mRNA templates, ...

Mimivirus is the largest and most complex virus known. Is it an evolutionary bridge between nonliving viruses and living organisms, or is it just an anomaly? Aa Aa Aa Viruses are small and fairly ...

Without seeing and understanding the battlefield, the issues of tactics, strategy and supply are moot. It’s the same when doctors, researchers and epidemiologists fight any virus: The physical ...

And that enabled the evolution of complex neural networks that ... These ancient viruses didn’t intend to change the ...

complex, multi-layered viruses. We perform our three-dimensional structural analyses by using electron cryomicroscopy and computer image-processing techniques. In favorable circumstances, x-ray ...

At UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, one scientist's sleepless nights are driven by the mysteries of virus-host interactions. Researcher Yoshihiro Izumiya is delving into the complex world of ...

RNA viruses pose significant challenges to public health due to their high mutation rates and diverse mechanisms of infection which allow them to rapidly adapt to new hosts and evade therapeutic ...