Capturing replication strategies used by SARS viruses in their bid to spread

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 09:16 in Biology & Nature

Just over five years ago, an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-coronavirus killed over 750 people. SARS (corona)virus, a positive-stranded RNA virus, replicates in the cytoplasm of host cells, attaching its replication complex to intracellular membranes that it has modified for this purpose.

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