Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV) is unique among the double-stranded RNA viruses of the family Reoviridae in having a single capsid layer. Analysis by cryo-electron microscopy allows ...

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Plant viruses are often able to spread from one ... and then into proteins. Sometimes, double-stranded RNA is cut into ...

This common virus can lead to a rare but serious polio-like complication known as acute flaccid myelitis. Symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis include limb weakness and paralysis.

Smoking does also raise the risk, but cervical cancer usually forms when HPV gets into healthy cells and hijacks their molecular machinery to produce even more virus particles – in the process ...

West Nile virus is spreading across the US and Europe. This deadly disease has been around for decades, but there is still no vaccine and no cure in humans. After a distinguished career as one of ...

Over 160,000 new viruses discovered by AI Largest discovery of new viruses sheds light on hidden virosphere Date: October 9, 2024 Source: University of Sydney Summary: 161,979 new RNA viruses have ...

Influenza A virus particles (virions) have a typical diameter of 80–160 nm, and are pleomorphic in shape. Virions consist of a lipid envelope (derived from the host plasma membrane) out of which ...

Dr. Janosch Hennig from the University of Bayreuth has discovered how the TRIM25 protein contributes to defense against RNA viruses whose genetic material is contained as ribonucleic ...

Respiratory viruses typically enter our body within droplets that are exhaled by infected people, and inhaled through our nose. Those viruses proceed to reproduce while infecting the cells lining ...