F. G. Alnaji

The paper identifies cryptic proteins from deletion-containing viral genomes that inhibit influenza virus replication and expand its proteome.

This study investigates the competition between influenza A virus and its defective interfering particles (DIPs) during co-infection, identifying DIPs with superior antiviral efficacy as potential therapeutic candidates.

The paper investigates how imprecise recombinant viruses evolve through fitness-driven recombination and resolution processes, showing that resolution involves repeated recombination events leading to wild-type genomes.

The paper analyzes deletion-containing viral genomes (DelVGs) in influenza A virus infection, revealing packaging inefficiencies and deletion hotspots.

This study investigates the factors influencing recombination in poliovirus, finding that genome function and fitness, rather than sequence identity or structure, determine the identity of recombinant progeny.

This paper describes a saliva-based SARS-CoV-2 testing method that avoids RNA extraction, achieving a detection limit comparable to nasal swabs and showing good performance with clinical samples.