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Oropouche virus: Emerging threats, symptoms, and prevention
After recovering from Oropouche infection, symptoms recur in about 60% of patients within a few days up to several weeks.
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Some viruses 'freeze' their RNA to replicate, study finds
Their study, which was published in Nature Chemical Biology, paves the way for new therapies that can "unfreeze" these RNA structures to combat other mosquito-borne RNA viruses. "We know that Zika ...
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Parasitic worms cause terrible diseases — could the viruses they carry be to blame?
Quek built an algorithm to search for signs of viruses in mosquito RNA, Mark Taylor, the senior study author and a LSTM parasitologist, told Live Science in an email. "In an inspired 'lightbulb ...
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Combating Mosquito-Borne Diseases with CRISPR
What are some CRISPR-based strategies for insect control that you have developed? We recently developed a new technology that uses CRISPR to block viral transmission. There are CRISPR ribonucleases ...
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Gene Silencing with RNA Interference
View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The natural RNAi mechanism can be directed by either short interfering RNA (siRNA) or microRNA (miRNA). 1 There are four key steps in the RNAi ...