Starting with tiny molecular building blocks, researchers in Rockville have made a functioning virus in record time and with unprecedented precision, a significant step toward the goal of being able ...
A virus can cause illness and even death if you become infected with the wrong one. However, a virus has no malicious intentions; it's simply a bundle of genetic code programmed to make copies of ...
Once the virus is in the cell, it inserts its own genetic material into the cellular machinery, causing the cell to make a virus rather than do the job it’s supposed to do until it ultimately dies.