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

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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