A wild banana’s hidden gene may help save the world’s favorite fruit from a relentless fungal threat. Scientists have identified a powerful source of natural resistance to a fungal disease that ...

Different DNA Structures Nucleate the Folding of Proteins to form specific complexes that modulate the readout of ...

The story of how life began on Earth grows even more intriguing when viruses enter the picture. These microscopic particles are thought to have ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

New review unravels how mitochondrial dysfunction and cellular aging converge to drive Parkinson’s disease Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive ...

In a major advance, UD professor Juan Perilla (right) and doctoral student Juan S. Rey and their collaborators have revealed ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. They have revealed a unique viral mechanism: A molecular ring anchors the viral copying machine ...

Dr Constantinos Patinios, a researcher at the EMBL Partnership Institute at Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC), ...

The atomic structural analysis also revealed the role of the so-called capping enzyme. It is stably integrated into the ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. The study reveals a ...

A strand of RNA just 45 nucleotides long has been discovered to perform two key reactions required for self-replication. The ...