Virophage, the virus eater
…virus. The second virophage is called Mavirus (for Maverick virus – because the viral DNA is similar to the eponymous DNA transposon). Mavirus was identified in the marine phagotropic flagellate…
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Viral RNA is not infectious virus!
…infectious virus. Male mice were infected with Zika virus and then mated with female mice. Efficient sexual transmission of the virus from males to females was observed. This observation in…
Changing influenza virus neuraminidase into a receptor binding protein
…which is an NA inhibitor. Treatment of G147R-containing virus with oseltamivir also blocked virus binding to cells. Virus-like particles that contain G147R NA but not HA can attach to sialic…
Ferreting out influenza H5N1
…is highly unlikely that laboratory-modified viruses will be able to cause extensive disease in humans. When humans tinker with viruses, they generally do not know what the virus needs to…
Trial By Error: A Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
…attendance records as a complement to self-reported school attendance. The Archives paper did not provide official school attendance records, even though it highlighted benefits at 12 months in self-reported school…
John Holland, 83
…discoveries about genome interactions between infecting viruses and the defective-interfering particles that they generate. Some very far-reaching conclusions about the nature of virus-virus and virus-cell interactions during viral infections have…