Research on bacteriophage Qβ by Charles Weissmann and colleagues in the 1970s 15 coincided with the development of quasispecies theory by Eigen and Schuster; the two investigations were carried out ...

A new software algorithm developed at Caltech enables researchers to easily search for viruses in RNA sequence data, enabling scientists to detect viruses in samples and study how they impact ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Fig. 3: Molecular and sequencing evidence for BMRV1, including RT-PCR, qPCR, western blot and small RNA sequencing results. The ...

A new global dataset of 239 human-infective RNA viruses shows how animal hosts, vector transmission, surveillance gaps, and viral traits shape the path from spillover to epidemic threat. Study: A ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers developed a deep learning model, "LucaProt," a transformer-based AI model to detect highly divergent ribonucleic acid (RNA)-dependent RNA ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada. The discovery serves as a reminder that growers should exercise caution when ...

The innate immune system is the body's first line of defence against pathogens like bacteria or viruses. TRIM25 is a protein that is important in the innate immune response against RNA viruses, such ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, uses a sophisticated tactic to evade the human body's defense ...

Though the majority of RNA viruses don’t infect humans, the group does include famous human pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, influenza and Ebola (pictured). (iStock / Getty Images Plus) The world is ...

Mammalian immunity has long been thought to rely solely on proteins and specialized immune cells. However, a newly proposed concept—RNA immunity—is reshaping this perspective. In a recent publication ...