Researchers discovered how rabies virus exerts massive control over host cells with very few genes. A key viral protein ...

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

Scientists have figured out how the dreaded herpes virus breaks into our cells. Herpes simplex type 1 (HSV-1) is mainly responsible for oral herpes. Around 67 percent of people aged under 50 worldwide ...

The coronavirus genome is 30,000 letters long, encoding more than two dozen different proteins that enable the virus to hijack our cells. Of these, spike gets all the glory and infamy; it is the ...

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched Viro3D—the most comprehensive database of human and animal virus protein structure ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered how a key protein from the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), EBNA-LP, fundamentally rewires the three-dimensional structure of DNA in infected B cells to ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2 to support its own reproduction. ANKLE2 is involved in brain development in the fetus and because Zika can cross the placenta and ...

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 ...

Vaccines that spur the creation of antibodies designed to attack specific spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been the principal defense against COVID-19. However, Yale researchers have found ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results in a smaller-than-expected head. A new study shows that the Zika virus ...