This is the first article in a series on viroids. Viruses, bacteria, and fungi; most people will have heard of these three major types of disease-causing microbes. Some will also have heard about ...

This is the second article in a series on viroids. The first, which can be read here, provided an overview of what viroids are and how they replicate. Whether you’re a carnivore, omnivore, or a ...

Viroids are unique systems for the study of RNA structure, function and evolution. They are the minimal RNA replicons characterized so far their genome is ten-fold smaller than that the smallest known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of pink cells lining the human gut. Scientists have uncovered a never-before-seen class of virus-like entities hiding ...

What's a viroid like you doing in a ribosome like this? This is the question set out by a team from the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP, in Spanish), a joint center of the ...

A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and collaborating academic research institutions have developed a computational pipeline to identify and better understand viroids and ...

The cause of a potato disease bedeviled scientists for decades before Dr. Diener figured out that an impossibly small pathogen called a viroid was to blame. By Daniel E. Slotnik See more of our ...

During 1970 and 1971, I discovered that a devastating disease of potato plants is not caused by a virus, as had been assumed, but by a new type of subviral pathogen, the viroid. Viroids are so small — ...

Recently I’ve been writing a fair amount about plants–what they can tell us about the deep history of life, as well as what life will be like for them in the near future. Viroids will still be a fact ...