In (+)-stranded RNA viruses, RNA is the sole genetic material. Because infected host cells ordinarily lack RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) activity, these RNA viruses encode a replicative ...

Around 58 million people suffer from chronic inflammation caused by the hepatitis C virus, and 300,000 people die from the disease every year. So far, no treatment has successfully managed to ...

Figure 1: An Australian Aborigine (left) and the precipitin line formed between the aboriginal serum and that of a multiply transfused patient with hemophilia (right). In 1964, I left the NIH to ...