New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered how a key protein from the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), EBNA-LP, ...

Viral DNA replication and the KSHV DNA replication proteins are essential to successful viral replication and, thus, appealing therapeutic targets. Our focus is characterizing the functions and ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according to a new study that may help tackle the pathogen.Viruses ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

When they expressed this mutant viral protein in human cells using a system to evaluate polyomavirus DNA replication, they found the virus’s genome replication was decreased by 10-fold. However, viral ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

NSC51349 selectively inhibits cutaneous HPV replication by targeting viral E2 activity, potentially paving the way for first ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...