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DNA Virus
A DNA virus is a type of virus that has DNA as genetic material. DNA viruses usually contain double-stranded DNA and use DNA-dependent DNA polymerase to replicate. In contrast to RNA viruses, which have smaller genomes, DNA viruses can encode hundreds of viral proteins once inside the host. Another difference between DNA and RNA viruses is that DNA viruses undertake their replication within the infected cell's nucleus, whereas RNA viruses replicate in the cytoplasm of infected cells. Examples of DNA viruses include the herpesviruses (which cause chickenpox, shingles, and oral and genital herpes), the smallpox viruses, adenoviruses (which cause common colds), and papillomaviruses (such as HPV).
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APR 14, 2018
Immunology
A vaccine to prevent leukemia and other diseases of the immune system caused by a specific viral infection is now a very
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 31, 2018
Microbiology
Scientists have learned more about how viruses are able to change to fit into their environment; they use a previously u
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 27, 2018
Clinical & Molecular DX
Infants under just one year old are at risk for acute viral bronchiolitis, a respiratory infection that in the worst cas
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 20, 2018
Cancer
Cancer induced reduction in antiviral immune response
Written By:
MAR 15, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
RNA defects can cause various diseases, and now researchers have found a bacterial enzyme that targets RNA.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 06, 2018
Health & Medicine
There's no question that if smallpox were to reappear, it would be a global health emergency. While it was eradicate
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 28, 2018
Microbiology
Bats have many characteristics that make them good viral hosts.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 15, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
CRISPR technology continues to revolutionize biology; two new diagnostic tools based on the technique have now been deve
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 09, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers have discovered a path toward virus-like, nanoscale devices that may be able to deliver drugs to cells by ch
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
DEC 07, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
This past Sunday marked the seventy-five anniversary of the day when the world’s first man-made self-sustainable c
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 18, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Mosquitoes with edited genomes have been created in the lab, with the aim of reducing disease and controlling mosquito p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 07, 2017
Immunology
As cardiac cells begin to die by the masses after a heart attack, the immune system kicks into action as if there were a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 24, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Relatively recent advancements in gene editing tools have completely revolutionized biomedical science, and now that tec
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 23, 2017
Microbiology
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the notorious virus known to cause infectious mononucleosis, also known as “mono&rdquo
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
OCT 06, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have created a new way to deliver CRISPR that doesn't require a virus, and that worked better than CRISPR-Cas
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 05, 2017
Immunology
The newest leap forward in Zika virus vaccine developing is probably the most exciting yet. The vaccine, a DNA-based app
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 16, 2017
Microbiology
Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease knew that some viruses - herpes simplex virus, f
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 10, 2017
Immunology
In very rare cases - two in 10,000 people experts say - a chickenpox infection can trigger extremely dangerous brain inf
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 07, 2017
Videos
Scientists estimate that tens to hundreds of millions of sea stars have died off within the last several years, ranging
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 30, 2017
Immunology
Scientists are working on what could be the first ever licensed DNA vaccine to prevent dengue virus. Dengue causes a sev
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 28, 2017
Microbiology
Polyomaviruses can lead to serious health complications like cancer. New work has provided insight into a question resea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 06, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Climate change is frightening on a lot of levels. Extreme weather, rising seas, displacement, extinction of species &nda
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 18, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have animated an important transporter that moves natural molecules and drug compounds into the cell.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 04, 2017
Neuroscience
While the Zika virus has not been in the headlines as much recently as when it was first discovered, there is still acti
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim