The first step for a virus to invade a cell is to cross the cell's ... a virus consists of one or more layers of protein that enclose its viral genome. In some cases, the virus also contains ...

The process of phage infection involves the attachment of the virus to the surface of a bacterium ... or the phage can integrate its genome into the bacterial one and remain dormant, a process ...

Scientists at the University of São Paulo analysed blood samples donated by six serodiscordant couples – the situation one ...

“Then all the pieces come together in some way to work as one single virus. I don’t think anything else in nature moves this way.” Viruses with multicomponent genomes commonly infect plants and fungi, ...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus genome had barely been sequenced when there ... a nursery in which to replicate and release new parasites to invade other red blood cells. Malaria infection ranges in severity ...

This curiosity led the Sapienzas to join a study on serodiscordant couples conducted by the Human Genome ... virus's RNA, inhibiting its replication and preventing infection by blocking cell invasion.