Whether infection of cells by individual virions occurs randomly or if there is some form (s) of competition or cooperativity between individual virions remains largely unknown for most virus-cell ...

This is an important study that utilizes proteomic and genetic approaches to identify the glycoprotein quality control factor malectin as a pro-viral host protein involved in the replication of ...

A scientist harvests H7N9 virus growing in bird eggs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received samples of the virus from China. — James Gathany/CDC/Douglas E. Jordan / (CC0 1.0) A ...

1 Virology Laboratory, Centre for Virus Research, Therapeutics and Vaccines, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, Haryana, India 2 Complex ...

Maryam Ahmed, Ph.D., didn’t come to the U.S. with a clear plan. Like many international students, she was still finding her way, figuring out how to adjust to a new country, a new system, and a future ...

A new study uncovers how Oropouche virus is breaking out of the Amazon, spreading across Brazil and beyond. Scientists warn that environmental changes, human mobility, and viral evolution are driving ...

Coronaviruses can expertly evade our immune system. One way they do this is by employing the viral protein nsp15. This protein contains an endoribonuclease domain (EndoU), which cleaves viral RNA that ...

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States Flaviviruses transmit through a wide range of vertebrate and arthropod hosts, while the other genera in ...

Five years after COVID-19 emerged from Wuhan, and evolved into one of the worst pandemics, another threat is looming from China. Hospitals in China are crowded with patients wearing masks and coughing ...

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne orthoflavivirus that can cause birth defects, including microcephaly, a condition in which head and brain size are significantly reduced at birth. The collective ...