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

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

Scientists in Spain and China discovered that HSV-1 begins rewriting the architecture of human genes just one hour after ...

Based on the current study, these DNA damage checkpoints may now be relevant to treating viral infections of the small DNA viruses under investigation at UB. “Because they rely almost exclusively on ...

Based on the current study, these DNA damage checkpoints may now be relevant to treating viral infections of the small DNA viruses under investigation at UB. “Because they rely almost exclusively on ...

These viruses, around three-quarters of which were previously unknown to science, were discovered thanks to scraps of viral DNA frozen in ice cores taken from the Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan ...

Giant viruses play a role in the survival of single-celled marine organisms called protists. These include algae, amoeba, and flagellates, that form the base of ocean food webs. And since these ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Imagine if scientists could grab virus particles the same way we pick up a tennis ball or a clementine, ... made from a single piece of folded DNA, was shown to detect covid-19 and block infections.

In the first type of signaling pathway, bacteria use the same sensor and effector proteins, cGAS and STING, to respond to phages as humans use to respond to DNA viruses (e.g., smallpox-like viruses).