In order for a virus like the COVID-19 virus to be detected early in the body using real time RT–PCR, scientists need to convert the RNA to DNA. This is a process called ‘reverse transcription’. They ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a unique genetic mechanism that provides cells ...

If DNA is a book, then how is it read? Learn more about the DNA transcription process, where DNA is converted to RNA, a more portable set of instructions for the cell. The process of transcription ...

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex (the ...

In contrast, lentiviruses such as human immunodeficiency virus ... understood process referred to as ‘uncoating’, the core undergoes re-organization to form a reverse transcription complex ...