Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

The RNA helicase DDX3X spends its days unwinding RNA:RNA duplexes and binding key mediators of RNA metabolism. A regulator of RNA transcription, splicing, nuclear export, and translation, DDX3X plays ...

The genome of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) encodes for several non-structural proteins (NSP) involved in viral replication and propagation, with NSP13 known to play a ...

March 21, 2012 (San Diego, California) — A novel helicase-primase inhibitor with antiviral activity against the varicella zoster virus might provide an alternative as potent as current treatments for ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

An international collaborative research team has discovered that G-quadraplex DNA (G4-DNA) accumulates in neurons and dynamically controls the activation and repression of genes underlying long-term ...