Researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa have discovered that a virus, FloV-SA2, encodes one of the proteins needed ...

Giant viruses, scientifically termed Nucleocytoviricota, are a virus group identified just two decades ago, primarily infecting single-celled organisms. These viruses rival bacteria in size ...

Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a new way to track the culprit – giant viruses – and identify their traces in specific types of tiny algae that they attack.

The key to this process was a unique 'giant' virus known as Mimivirus. This research was co-authored by Ms. Kanako Morioka and Ms. Ayumi Fujieda at Tokyo's Yone Production Co., Tokyo, Japan.

The team, led by Professor Masaharu Takemura at the Tokyo University of Science, did so by making use of a particular type of virus: Mimivirus. To attempt to visualize how it infects cells in real ...

With the discovery of Mimivirus — the largest, most complex virus currently known — these assumptions may need to be reevaluated. This giant virus has a much larger size and bigger genome than ...

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Institute of Biological Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil ...

Scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences found forty new freshwater viruses infecting aquatic microorganisms this year. The first one, which they isolated and described ...

it acts as a giant sieve that filters out everything that isn’t RNA content. One of the first traces of hepatitis D virus-like agents in non-human hosts was discovered in 2018 by a group of ...

“Detailed analysis of this virus had to wait until Dr. Thomy joined the lab, but it was worth the wait!” Previous discoveries have shown that, like FloV-SA2, other so-called ‘giant ...

Preferential production of virus proteins? Previous discoveries have shown that, like FloV-SA2, other so-called 'giant' viruses code for proteins involved in a wide range of metabolic processes.