For decades, biology textbooks have drawn a firm line: viruses are not alive. They lack the machinery to reproduce on their ...
In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, ...
Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...