A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. They have revealed a unique viral mechanism: A molecular ring anchors the viral copying machine ...

Researchers identified how the poxvirus protein VITF-3 forms a molecular ring that clamps onto DNA with viral RNA polymerase, bending it by 90 degrees to initiate gene copying.

A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. The study reveals a ...

What's the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? Researchers at the University of Missouri are ...

The renewed and expanded agreements provide improved commercial conditions, including more competitive pricing, optimized contractual terms, and enhanced supply security. These improvements will ...

Two separate laboratory breakthroughs have produced RNA molecules that can build copies of themselves or assemble functional structures without any help from proteins or DNA. These results offer the ...

The difficulty is that EBV lives latently in B cells in the blood at a frequency, in most immunocompetent individuals, of about 1 in 100,000 to 1 in a million. That level of infection is below the ...

Scientists on their quest to find the origin of life have stared into the primordial soup, trying to answer the ultimate ...

A fleeting DNA fold called i‑DNA can switch cancer‑related genes on and off, revealing a hidden structural weak point that ...

For many years, researchers believed that the DNA inside a newly fertilized egg began as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a loose ...