Submitted by Sydney Jennings This paper is a summary of the article, Non-Human Primates Harbor Diverse Mammalian and Avian Astroviruses Including Those Associated with Human Infections. The purpose of this…

Submitted by Winter Kemppainen The research article, Picornavirus RNA is protected from cleavage by ribonuclease during virion uncoating and transfer across cellular and model membranes,1 outlines the results from a…

Submitted by Lyndsi Leprowse The topic of this discussion are Caliciviruses, and this discussion goes into specific detail about that of a certain member of the Caliciviridae family, called Norovirus.…

For Virology Did having bacteria and air-borne contamination with cultures of viruses skew results? Were they trying to correlate a grown virus with a certain illness, and did contamination ever…

Influenza virus, the causative agent of flu, has a genome composed of segmented, single-stranded, negative sense RNA.  This combination leads to challenges for your immune system because this virus can…