The following is a summary of “A viro-immunological model to characterize the antiviral effect of molnupiravir in SARS-CoV-2-infected outpatients: implication for treatment duration,” published in the ...

Researchers have unveiled innovative, label-free ratiometric fluorosensor designed for the selective and sensitive detection of enteroviral RNA. The research promises to deliver even more advanced and ...

Perhaps, simple replicating RNA molecules ... free-living organisms that adapted a parasitic replication strategy. Perhaps viruses existed before, and led to the evolution of, cellular life.

Researchers have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The virus can cause fatal encephalitis in humans.

(A base is a pair of compounds that are the building blocks of RNA and DNA.) Because the genome is so large, many mutations could occur during replication that would cripple the virus, but SARS ...

RNA sequencing and RNA structural probing to map the viral and host translational landscape and pausing during replication of the virus in unprecedented detail," says corresponding author Neva ...

One aspect that signals pandemic potential in a virus is having an RNA, rather than DNA, genome. That’s because the process of copying RNA typically doesn’t include a proofreader like DNA replication ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

To test whether nSMase2 is essential for viral replication, the team inhibited the enzyme by using ... or by knocking down nSMase2 expression using RNA interference. In human cell cultures, ...

In RNA, cytosine also pairs with guanine ... interfere with DNA replication and induce cell death in rapidly dividing cancer cells or inhibit viral replication. Examples include: 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) ...