A team of government veterinarians with the State Veterinary Institute Prague in the Czech Republic has found possible evidence of windborne H5N1 infections in chickens. In their paper posted on the ...

Food safety officials say they are testing beef, including ground beef from grocery stores, for the presence of the H5N1 bird flu virus ... USDA is testing beef with polymerase chain reaction ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and collaborators evaluated a replicating RNA (repRNA) vaccine ...

Pasteurization is the only widely recognized method of killing H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu, in milk. However, ...

RNA polymerase is an enzyme that is responsible for copying a DNA sequence into an RNA sequence, duyring the process of transcription. As complex molecule composed of protein subunits, RNA ...

Gene expression is linked to RNA transcription, which cannot happen without RNA polymerase. However, this is where the similarities between prokaryote and eukaryote expression end. Central to the ...

The material developed by NIST includes three segments of RNA corresponding to certain proteins of the H5N1 virus—the hemagglutinin, neuraminidase and matrix proteins. Most H5N1 tests rely on the ...

Each nucleocapsid protein-encapsidated RNA segment, together with its heterotrimeric polymerase, constitutes a viral ribonucleoprotein complex. Although consisting of only eight genomic segments ...

Of particular concern is the recent unexpected infection of dairy cows in the U.S. by an avian H5N1 strain ... At the heart of this process is the polymerase, an enzyme that orchestrates the ...

SAN DIEGO, January 10, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (the "Company", "Arcturus", Nasdaq: ARCT), a commercial messenger RNA medicines company focused ... also known as ...