Sensor spies hideouts for ?virus replication

ScienceDaily
Aug 13, 2021, 6:07 pm138 ptsTrending
Some types of RNA viruses cloak themselves to hide inside a cell and create copies of themselves. But an enzyme that acts as a virus sensor might be attuned to their whereabouts. A slight variation in their genomic code gives some people's cells the capacity to produce this sensor. Researchers discovered how…

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