A new role has been uncovered for a cell's own RNA in fending off attacks by RNA viruses. Some of the cell's RNA molecules, researchers found, help regulate antiviral signaling. These signals are ...

2024 — A new role has been uncovered for a cell's own RNA in fending off attacks by RNA viruses. Some of the cell's RNA molecules, researchers found, help regulate antiviral signaling.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results ...

Scientists have uncovered a new role for a cell's own RNA in fending off attacks by RNA viruses. Some of the cell's RNA molecules, researchers found, help regulate antiviral signaling. These ...

New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) suggests that many people already have immune cells ...

In a recent study, researchers from Uppsala University have shown that the Semliki Forest virus enters the central nervous ...

New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) suggests that many people already have immune cells ...

Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa have made an exciting discovery: a virus found in the ocean called FloV-SA2 carries the genetic instructions for making part of a ribosome—a crucial ...

As cases of H5N1 bird flu rise across the U.S., some of us may be more immune to the virus than others. Many people may have immune cells called "T cells" primed and ready to fight the "highly ...

Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature. By Benjamin ...