Virology

• Biochemists discover mechanism that helps flu viruses evolve: Influenza viruses can hijack host cellular machinery to help mutated viral proteins fold and function (04 Oct 2017)
  
• Primates have been infected with viruses related to HIV for 16 million years (28 May 2016)
  
• Synthetic DNA vaccine against MERS induces immunity in animal study (27 May 2016)
  
• HIV can develop resistance to CRISPR/Cas9 (10 Apr 2016)
  
• Plants can 'switch off' virus DNA (05 Feb 2016)