Scientists have learned how plants keep viruses from being passed to their offspring, a finding that could ensure healthier crops. The discovery could also help reduce the transmission of diseases ...

Aedes aegypti, commonly known as the yellow fever mosquito, is a highly adapted, invasive mosquito species recognized as a major global health threat that acts as the primary vector for several severe ...

A research team from the University of Cologne and collaborators has now shown that RNA interference, or RNAi for short, which is known to be a viral defense mechanism, also prevents the ...

Researchers at Boston University have mapped immune responses in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to uncover a wide range of insect viruses, many previously unknown. By tracking viral small RNAs that activate ...

The transcriptional regulator YAP, which plays important roles in the development, regeneration, and tumorigenesis, is activated when released from inhibition by the Hippo kinase cascade. The ...

RNA interference (RNAi) is a fundamental cellular mechanism that regulates gene expression by inducing sequence-specific mRNA degradation. Researchers could utilize the RNAi as a powerful tool to ...

RNAi (RNA interference) and CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) screening are two powerful techniques at the forefront of functional genomics research. Both techniques ...

D. Grimm et al., "Fatality in mice due to oversaturation of cellular microRNA/short hairpin RNA pathways," Nature, 441:537-41, 2006. (Cited in 147 papers) While studying the potential of RNA ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers identified a novel antiviral pathway different from the interferon (IFN) pathway that inhibited poxvirus(es) replication. Study: A ...