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New experiments reveal how viruses initiate translation of genetic material into proteins – News-Medical.net
Infectious viruses come in many shapes and sizes and use slightly different attack mechanisms to make humans and animals sick.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 25 2020
Infectious viruses come in many shapes and sizes and use slightly different attack mechanisms to make humans and animals sick. But all viruses share something in common: They can only do damage by replicating inside the cells of another organism - their host.
This broad, fundamental process of how viruses trick host cells into making copies of the virus has had a team of Colorado State University scientists captivated for several years.
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