Researchers have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The ...

For example, with the aid of powerful microscopes ... which are necessary for viral replication inside the cell. Some viruses also have a lipid envelope embedded with proteins.

MSK researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a ...

To become infectious, HIV has to undergo a maturation process, which involves a rearrangement of the matrix proteins (red). In an immature virus particle, the matrix proteins form a lose lattice ...

Obeying instructions from the virus, the newly infected cell sprouts ... making it a factory for replication. The discovery that the coronavirus also makes the zombie cells sprout tentacles ...