Tag Archives: SARS-CoV-2

Covid virus alters RNA in infected cells

rna-seq

For the first time, scientists at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have shown that infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, changes the functioning of host cell RNA. They arrived at this conclusion by analyzing ...

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New type of RNA discovered

rna-seq

Novel immunostimulatory dsRNAs activate antiviral responses against multiple pandemic viruses in mouse and human organ chip models. RNA is often described as the single-stranded cousin of DNA, the double-stranded molecule that makes up the genomes of all living organisms. Many ...

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