The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On ...

Left: A normal cell where the RNA molecule NORAD ... efficient immune response that halts the viral infection. This response neutralizes the virus's ability to replicate within the human cell.

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

While Zika has been reported in more than 90 countries, surprisingly little is known about what exactly drives Zika ...

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the ...

Given that an infected person can excrete many billions of viral particles, it’s very difficult to prevent the virus from spreading. When norovirus is ingested, it initially infects the cells that ...

The flu is a disease of the respiratory system involving the mouth, nose, throat and occasionally the bronchi and lungs.

Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. Apart from a few 'miracle' cases, antiretrovirals only suppress HIV, they don't kill it. But new research is promising.

The scientists knew that viruses had an array of tools to evade or withstand immune attack after entering the body and infecting cells. “We wanted to learn which components of the immune system ...