To fight the virus that causes influenza, one of the avenues being explored by scientists is the development of drugs capable of destabilizing its genome, made up of RNA molecules. But the challenge ...
Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic ...
A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant viral mysteries of the 20th century. By decoding the genome of the 1918 ...
A scientist harvests H7N9 virus growing in bird eggs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received samples of the virus from China. — James Gathany/CDC/Douglas E. Jordan / (CC0 1.0) ...
Influenza A virus (IAV) possesses a segmented, negative-sense RNA genome comprising eight distinct viral RNA (vRNA) segments. These segments form ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes that are selectively ...
Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic ...
In a glass jar at the University of Zurich, a lung has been sitting in silence for more than a hundred years. Preserved in formalin, the organ belonged to an 18-year-old Swiss man who died during the ...
CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007 (AP), India. The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for ...
3D reconstruction of the arrangement of an influenza virus RNA molecule (yellow) in its double-helix protein coat (purple and green). The atomic visualisation of these intimate protective interactions ...