Enlarge / Electron micrograph of herpesviruses. reader comments 15 with Share this story Double-stranded DNA viruses come in two main flavors, classified by their shapes. One contains large and giant DNA viruses that attack complex cells but also includes some viruses that are much smaller and infect bacteria. These viruses are shaped like soccer balls. ..
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Enlarge / Pager, a 9-year-old Macaque, plays MindPong with his Neuralink. reader comments 97 with 0 posters participating Share this story The US Department of Transportation is investigating allegations that Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, violated federal transportation regulations when it shipped contaminated implants removed from the brains of deceased research monkeys infected with ..
Enlarge / Herpes viruses getting ready to infect new cells. reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story One of the defining features of viruses is that they rely on host proteins in order to reproduce. A host cell will often copy viral genes into RNAs and then translate those RNAs into proteins, ..
Enlarge / Rhesus Macaques in a tree reader comments 106 Share this story In the 1930s and ‘40s, the captain of a glass-bottom boat released a dozen or so rhesus macaques on an island in Florida’s Silver River, which snakes through Marion county in the center of the state. The idea was that the monkeys, ..