To fight the virus that causes influenza, one of the avenues being explored by scientists is the development of drugs capable of destabilizing its genome, which is made up of eight RNA molecules.

Periodically, the yearly flu transforms into a particularly virulent strain, like the Spanish flu that killed millions of people in 1918. How do these pandemic strains arise? Aa Aa Aa Although ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

To fight the virus that causes influenza, one of the avenues being explored by scientists is the development of drugs capable of destabilizing its genome, made up of eight RNA molecules. But the ...

Influenza and a handful of other viruses have long been viewed as pandemic threats. One aspect that signals pandemic potential in a virus is having an RNA, rather than DNA, genome. That’s because the ...

How did viruses evolve ... elements make up an astonishing 42% of the human genome (Lander et al. 2001) and can move within the genome via an RNA intermediate. Like retroviruses, certain classes ...

A field that attempts to describe the functions and interactions of genes and proteins by using genome ... enzyme called RNA polymerase before translation into protein can occur. Viruses that have ...

SACRAMENTO, the United States, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Scientists are sounding the alarm about a concerning genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu virus, recently identified in four dairy cow herds, as ...

A newly identified bat influenza virus, H18N12, carries mutations that ... Three segments of this viral genome exhibited 90% similarity with H18N11. Comparatively, 93% of the A/bat/Colombia ...

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in ...