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RNA Virus
An RNA virus is a type of virus that has RNA as genetic material. As the RNA virus enters the host, the virus makes use of the presence of endogenous cellular RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. This allows the virus to replicate its genome and integrate itself into the host's DNA. Once integrated, the virus may become latent (such as in HIV infection) or maybe be transcribed to continually produce new viral proteins (such as in SARS-CoV-2 infection). Examples of RNA viruses include the hepatitis C virus, the virus that causes Ebola, SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease), polio, measles, and the HIV virus.
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APR 16, 2021
Microbiology
The current COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer/BioNTech and Modern are based on messenger RNA, which cells use to make proteins
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 11, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Vaccines are mostly known as tools to prevent illness. But cancer vaccines are a bit different, and aim to treat existin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 05, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
New variants of the coronaviruses have emerged over the course of the pandemic through the natural evolutionary process
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
MAR 30, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Bacteria can share genetic material in a process called horizontal gene transfer, and recent work has shown that in anim
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 19, 2021
Cancer
A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications from the University of Colorado Cancer Center explores new
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 09, 2021
Immunology
Researchers have developed a CRISPR treatment that could potentially treat both viruses that cause COVID-19 and influenz
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
FEB 24, 2021
Microbiology
Using metagenomics tools, which sequence all of the viral material in a sample, researchers have investigated the viruse
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 02, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
Contact tracing is a powerful tool used by public health authorities to help slow the spread of infectious diseases such
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JAN 25, 2021
Microbiology
The advancement of genetic and computational tools has given us so much new information its opened up new research field
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 24, 2021
Microbiology
To cause the COVID-19 illness, the SARS-CoV-2 virus first has to get into cells. To do so, it uses something called a sp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 08, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
There has long been debate about whether viruses are a form of life, because many of them are only made up of a bit of g
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 24, 2020
Microbiology
The UK recently reported that it had detected a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic virus, which causes COVID-19. Thi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 23, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
Quick, portable, and ultrasensitive—a new smartphone test for COVID-19 checks all the boxes needed to get a handle
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 20, 2020
Microbiology
Scientist Katalin Karikó studied mRNA vaccines for years. She spent years getting grant rejections, but has now helped c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 30, 2020
Microbiology
Zika virus cause a devastating epidemic in 2015, and led to the birth of hundreds of children that had congenital brain
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 18, 2020
Microbiology
Five people in Bolivia are known to have been infected with the Chapare virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever. Some infe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 16, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
It's essential for organisms to use their genomes to make proteins, and the processes of transcription and translation a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 15, 2020
Microbiology
Hubrecht Institute researchers observe a virus as it invades a cell and competes with the host for control of the host c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 12, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
To repair disease-causing errors in the genome, gene editing reagents like those used in CRISPR-Cas9 first have to reach
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
A team of researchers has improved upon the current diagnostic methodology for COVID-19, making it significantly more ac
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
NOV 10, 2020
Immunology
In the middle of 2020, yet another deadly Ebola outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - the 11th
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
NOV 09, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
A preliminary analysis of Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine shows that it can prevent over 90% of people from c
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
OCT 21, 2020
Microbiology
Ebola virus can pass from animals to humans, and between people. Rarely, it causes outbreaks but when it does, they can
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
To learn more about biology and medicine, researchers have used advances in molecular techniques and computational biolo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch