Some viruses fuse contacting cell plasma membranes, which can contribute to viral spread. Other viruses subvert the host cell cytoskeleton to aid in their cell-to-cell spread. Some viruses travel ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have made an exciting discovery : a virus found in the ocean called FloV-SA2 carries the genetic ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics and Heidelberg University have observed largely intact HIV-1 capsids as ...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune system, making infected individuals more ...

Cells in the lungs and blood vessels contain an abundance of ACE2 receptors, which the virus infiltrates using a spike ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results ...

Zika virus, infamous for causing microcephaly, manipulates a host protein called ANKLE2 to assist its replication, which also ...

With the new EU-funded grant, Sezgin team seeks to examine the virus-host interaction of Marburg virus (MARV) and establish a ...

A new experimental vaccine could offer protection not only against many variants of SARS-CoV-2, but also other sarbecoviruses that could spill over from animals to humans.

A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of ...

Researchers discover how Zika virus and related viruses replicate in human cells, illuminating potential new vaccines.