Scientists have has pioneered antivirals targeting viral methyltransferases, offering a new strategy for treating RNA and DNA ...

Discover how the innovative Plant RNA-FM AI model developed by the John Innes Centre and University of Exeter is transforming ...

Infection with viruses such as CMV affects melon physiology by altering sugar transport and carbohydrate levels. CMV-infected melon leaves show high concentrations of reducing sugars and low starch ...

The unwelcome mix of winter viruses – influenza, Covid, RSV and norovirus, dubbed a “quad-demic” – are starting to surge as we head into winter. While these infections occur year-round ...

(Nanowerk News) A tiny, four-fingered “hand” folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly ... “There are some adjustments we would have to make with the 3D ...

A tiny, four-fingered 'hand' folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID ... we would have to make with the 3D structure, the stability and the targeting aptamers ...

This wild animal is an important reservoir of the hepatitis E virus, the disease causative ... "especially at a time when the structure and functioning of ecosystems are changing at an ...

Symptomatic test plants were back-indexed to banana cv. Lakatan using the same transmission procedure as described above. Twenty aphids were used per cv. Lakatan plantlet with three replicates per ...

AlphaFold and the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database have transformed access to protein structure predictions, enabling modeling of both single chains and complex protein assemblies. However ...

CMV is a tripartite virus with high sequence variability, classified into three subgroups with 80% to 97% identical nucleotides in their coat protein. Due to the absence of natural resistance CMV is ...

It relies on an outside partner to reproduce: a plant, animal or even a fungus ... His research involves studying the structure of viruses and how they interface with the cells of their hosts’ bodies ...