The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

3D reconstruction of the arrangement of an influenza virus RNA molecule (yellow) in its double-helix protein coat (purple and green). The atomic visualisation of these intimate protective ...

The virus uses its own RNA copying machine, called a polymerase, to make duplicates ... 29,900 bases long--near the limit for RNA viruses. Influenza has about 13,500 bases, and the rhinoviruses ...

To fight the virus that causes influenza, one of the avenues being explored by scientists is the development of drugs capable of destabilizing its genome, which is made up of eight RNA molecules.

An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated 1918 Influenza virus ... While all of the virus’ genetic material – the RNA – was fragmented into tiny pieces, the scientists were ...

Any scientist or physician interested in the influenza virus ... using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based techniques. These careful workers have successfully isolated fragments of RNA from ...

The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the ...

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex ... for both transcription and RNA replication and mutations that have ...

A specialized protein produced by the immune system that helps destroy disease-causing organisms. An antibody is a component of humoral immunity. Antibodies can be effective defenders against both ...

Deep learning AI model scans 'dark matter' of genomic data to find 70,000 never-before-seen RNA viruses MDL-001 targets a part of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase ... C and influenza as it was ...

Viral concentrations in wastewater were quantified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing. Influenza A virus levels were ...

In an update from the FDA, the agency said it tested milk samples by polymerase chain ... “Some of it is influenza, the virus itself because it’s a segmented RNA and has a different genome.