New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Colon cancer remains a major global health concern, ranking third among the most diagnosed cancers and leading causes of ...

Study: An update on inhibitors targeting RNA-dependent RNA polymerase for COVID-19 treatment: Promises and challenges.Image Credit: tigerder/Shutterstock. RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is a ...

The new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that HSV-1 reshapes the human genome's structure, making it compact ... with the virus hijacking a key human enzyme – ...

What am I looking at? This is a 3D rendering of an RNA polymerase II enzyme from baker’s yeast, created using actual molecular data to reconstruct its shape and active sites. What looks like a ...

More poly-A tail; Pol-II, DNA-dependent RNA-polymerase II; L-HDAg, large hepatitis D antigen; S-HDAg, small hepatitis D antigen. SOURCE: ACCESS Health International HDV RNA Replication ...

RNA polymerase II, or Pol II, doesn’t start working on its own. ... But getting to a clear structure of the entire complex was far from a given: it was considered too big, ...