New UB research has found that triggering a cell's DNA damage response could be useful in developing treatments for some disease-causing viruses.

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Liquid DNA behind virus attacks Date: October 6, 2014 Source: Lund University Summary: Viruses can convert their DNA from solid to fluid form, which explains how viruses manage to eject DNA into ...

The virus is known to cause lymphoma, stomach, and nasopharyngeal cancers, but we also saw it in other types of cancers such as liver, pancreatic, colon, prostate and skin cancer.

Researchers are using DNA 'origami' templates to control the way viruses are assembled. The global team behind the research developed a way to direct the assembly of virus capsids -- the protein ...