This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. You may read the others on Forbes or www.williamhaseltine.com. Transcriptomics refers to the analysis of all the ...
Viroids are closed circles of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that replicate at a very low level using host cell enzymes, since they do not usually encode proteins. The existence of over ten thousand viroids, ...