At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

The study uncovered how HIV “hides,” an understanding that could help future treatments find and eradicate it.

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

The process usually requires forming a transcription and replication complex ... Although all RNA viruses utilize RNA as their genetic material, their RNA genomes are also highly variable in structure ...

Newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial population.

The RNP complex is the influenza virus’s essential package, the virus’s blueprints and a copy machine all rolled in one. The ...

In a significant breakthrough, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have ...

Mutations are like typos in the string of “letters” that make up a strand of DNA or RNA ... replication and mutation, and the use of therapies such as convalescent plasma may have pressured ...

The RNA-elongating NS5-NS3 complex is a critical molecular structure responsible for dengue virus replication. Using the cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) structures available in the Protein Data ...

“Furthermore, the condensates are highly dynamic structures: several can merge forming a larger structure or they can ... genome is segregated from its replication by the viral polymerase in ...