PHILADELPHIA - By combining two techniques, an international team of scientists led by researchers at The Wistar Institute has derived the "quasi-atomic" structure of a common bacteriophage, a type of ...
Retroviruses are viruses that have evolved the ability to write their genetic code into a cell's own DNA. The most ancient ...
Scientists at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues at the University of ...
Scientists mapped the Bas63 bacteriophage in unprecedented detail, uncovering how its tail machinery infects bacteria. The ...
As a group of infections, diarrheal diseases still rank as some of the leading causes of death worldwide. While we often things of adenoviruses (AdVs) infecting the respiratory tract and conjunctiva ...
Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have for the first time at the atomic level succeeded in mapping what a virus looks like that causes diarrhea and annually kills about 50,000 children in the ...
Xurong Wang, Fuxian Zhang, Rui Su, Xiaowu Li, Wenyuan Chen, Qingxiu Chen, Tao Yang, Jiawei Wang, Hongrong Liu, Qin Fang, Lingpeng Cheng Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United ...
Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread.