An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

As part of a person's first line of defense against viruses and other microbes that cause illness and disease, a whole network of proteins and other molecules detect and respond to intruders, which ...

Chinese scientists say they have uncovered how the H5N1 virus initially invades the mammary glands of dairy cattle, ...

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

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

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

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

A strategy that analyzes the structural properties of RNA could help identify regions that are promising targets for antiviral drugs.

Plant RNA viruses pose a significant threat to global agriculture, affecting a vast array of crop species and leading to ...

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

Just three hours after infection, the virus causes a sizeable fraction of molecules involved in human DNA replication to abandon the cell nucleus and enter viral replication compartments.