How does Zika virus replicate and transmit from mother to fetus? Nearly $6 million in new NIH grants will enable Penn State researcher and colleagues to investigate how Zika virus replicates and ...

The paper was published in Nature Microbiology. Bacteriophages, also known as phages, are types of viruses that infect bacteria and use the infected bacteria to replicate and spread.

Zika virus hijacks a key protein implicated in brain development for its own replication. Researchers led by Associate Professor Priya Shah at the University of California, Davis (CA, USA), have ...

Viruses cannot replicate very well in humans, which means transmission from mosquitoes is often very difficult. One might think arboviruses continually evolve in ways that enable them to infect ...

Researchers are on the trail of a solution. Viruses replicate by making copies of themselves within the cells they infect, which makes for a good target where an intervention can be made.

Both the genomic and the antigenomic strands of hepatitis D virus encode ribozymes; these are active sequences of RNA that both cleave and rejoin the RNA during replication, as is the case for all ...

(+) RNA viruses are skilled masters of manipulating cellular proteins to complete essential steps of virus infection: (1) translation and replication of viral (+)RNA; (2) virus movement to adjacent ...