Vaccinia viruses serve as a vaccine against human smallpox and as the basis of new cancer therapies. Two studies now provide fascinating insights into their unusual propagation strategy at the atomic ...

The next hypothesis was that L6's higher viral fitness might be due to its higher multiplication rate in the mosquito. The researchers therefore infected captive mosquitoes (bred for use in scientific ...

ALTHOUGH it is well established that inactivated viral particles interfere with the multiplication of active virus, the intimate mechanism of the phenomenon is unknown. The fundamental experiments, ...

THE rate of virus multiplication may ultimately be limited by the number of unprogrammed ribosomes available to viral nucleic acid. There is presumably only a finite probability in unit time that an ...

A lineage of type 1 dengue virus found in Brazil is able to prevail over another even though it multiplies less in vector mosquitoes and infected human cells. This discovery was made under the scope ...

For viruses to multiply, they usually need the support of the cells they infect. In many cases, only in their host's nucleus can they find the machines, enzymes and building blocks with which they can ...

Vaccinia viruses serve as a vaccine against human smallpox and as the basis of new cancer therapies. Two studies now provide fascinating insights into their unusual propagation strategy at the atomic ...