By Dr. Sushama R. Chaphalkar, PhD. A new deep learning model, LucaProt, has detected over 251,000 new RNA virus species from global ecosystems, revealing unprecedented viral diversity in places ...

Viruses might start as "rogue stretches of nucleic acid" — either DNA or RNA — that split off from other cells, Paul Turner, a biology and ecology professor at Yale University, tells Inverse.

The RNA binds to and activates an enzyme (glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase) involved in many important metabolic processes, including amino acid metabolism, long-chain fat use, and a basic ...

Fungi fight viruses with RNA editing that rewires their genetic response. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter. Learn more. Your name. Note.

Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover 70,500 viruses previously unknown to science 1, many of them weird and nothing like known species. The RNA viruses were identified ...

The discovery might lead to better ways to thwart viruses that kill agricultural crops and interfere with the production of dairy products ... Bacteria take 'RNA mug shots' of threatening viruses.

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A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,” the biologists Jean and Peter Medawar wrote in 1977. In January, scientists deciphered a piece of very bad news: the genome of ...

Both RNA editing tools will be useful, but C2c2 might be more versatile because it is based on a natural RNA targeting system rather than an engineered one. One thing is clear, says Yeo.