Researchers at San Diego State University and Michigan State University are shedding new light on how viruses meticulously ...

Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the ...

Researchers have developed a new way to study how biochemical processes can impair the immune system’s ability to recognize ...

Hepatitis B virus, a killer of more than one million people each year, is a notoriously wily virus, often lingering and resurfacing even after treatment. But, thanks to a new class of drugs, its ...

Curiously, they observed RNase L degrade the cell's own messenger RNA, but not the foreign viral RNA lurking within the cell. Burke's hypothesis is that some viruses have developed defensive ...

The quest for a vaccine against HIV has been going on for about 40 years — almost as long as the virus that causes AIDS has ...

Home > Press release: Just breathe: fighting viral respiratory ... A research team at MHH wants to use the CRISPR-Cas13 system to cut up viral RNA and thus stop the pathogens from multiplying. The ...

Chikungunya, which can disable victims for years, is spreading rapidly, including in China, France and other places that have ...

The virus uses its own RNA copying machine, called a polymerase, to make duplicates of RNA inside the vesicles. Some of the copies are utilized to make more viral proteins, such as the spike.

In this sense, endogenous RNA immunity closely parallels innate immunity—it is pre-existing, fast-acting, and capable of recognizing a wide array of viral targets through sequence complementarity.

They found that OAS 3 proteins crowded around the foreign, double-stranded viral RNA, binding tightly in three locations. Once this binding is tight enough, the normally quiet RNase L enzyme ...