Viruses, like those that cause COVID-19 or HIV, are formidable opponents once they invade our bodies. Antiviral treatments strive to block a virus or halt its replication. However, viruses are dynamic ...

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 ...

which are necessary for viral replication inside the cell. Some viruses also have a lipid envelope embedded with proteins. Both enveloped and nonenveloped viruses use the proteins present on their ...

With only seven genes, the BK polyomavirus must use the host cell's DNA replication machinery to produce new viruses. Although the virus was discovered over 50 years ago, little is known about how ...

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 ...

An HIV drug was named “2024 Breakthrough of the Year” by Science Magazine. Biochemistry research from the University of Utah ...

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).

UConn researchers have identified a small molecule that disrupts PRRSV, a virus costing the swine industry billions annually.

New research utilizes an innovative computational modeling approach to capture the complex and diverse shapes that viral ...