Researchers copy viral strategies to get mRNA medicines into cells in one piece

Drugs made of mRNA have the potential to transform medicine—if only they could get into cells in one piece. Now, University ...
Science Daily

Giant virus discovery could rewrite the origin of complex life

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 ...
Nature

This giant virus hijacks cells’ protein-making machinery to multiply wildly

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opts its host’s systems with the help of ...

Nuclear speckles play a key role in the progression of viral infection, research reveals

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection dramatically remodels the host cell's nuclear structures. Infection leads to ...

Giant DNA viruses encode their own eukaryote-like translation machinery, researchers discover

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma ...

Breakthrough Discovery Targets Virus Infecting 95% of the World’s Population

Scientists at Fred Hutch Cancer Center have reported an important advance in the effort to stop Epstein Barr virus (EBV), a ...

Virus-specific T cells may predict immunotherapy success for a rare brain infection

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare but serious brain infection. It gradually destroys brain tissue ...

Epstein-Barr: The virus nearly everyone carries and its possible role in MS

Over 95% of the world's adult population is infected with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), but most people never realize it. The infection often causes few symptoms and then stays in the body for life.