A mechanism of antiviral immunity in bacteria has been characterized. A research team from Umeå University (Sweden) has uncovered a mechanism for how bacteria build up antiviral immunity against ...

RNA technology platform which mimics viral infection by selectively delivering viral-like double-stranded RNA to tumor cells and harnessing the body’s antiviral defence mechanism against cancer.

"Unexpectedly, this also significantly increased the antiviral activity of BREX ... attacking or defending DNA and how the protection mechanism works," says Mikhail Skutel, a co-author of ...