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Giant viruses may be far more alive than anyone imagined

For decades, biology textbooks have drawn a firm line: viruses are not alive. They lack the machinery to reproduce on their ...

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, ...

A ring to transcribe them: The unique path of poxviruses

A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. They have revealed a ...
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-opt its host’s systems with the help of ...
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Study reveals poxvirus's unique DNA clamp for gene activation

A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. The study reveals a unique viral mechanism: a molecular ring anchors the viral copying machine ...
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Study reveals previously unknown role for viral protein integrase in HIV's life cycle

The tiny shell protecting the HIV virus resembles a slightly rounded ice cream cone, but there is nothing sweet about it. More than 40 million people worldwide live with AIDS because of this virus, ...

A Biologist Explains The ‘Frozen Zoo’ — The 50-Year Project That Could Rewrite Extinction

For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is ...
BioTechniques

How does cholera colonize the gut? Unmasking virulence activation with cryo-EM

The visualization revealed that virulence activation is achieved through the interaction of ToxR or TcpP with the ...