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.

Biological scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope ...

Understanding how viruses enter host cells and propagate is crucial for ... By employing single-particle tracking techniques, researchers discovered that the movement of viral ribonucleoprotein ...

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

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

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

HIV-1, like other viruses, lacks the machinery to produce its own proteins and must rely on the host cell to translate its genetic instructions. After entering host cells, it seizes control of the ...

The key to the method, as corresponding author Dr Elad Harel of Michigan State University told IFLScience, is that it allows for the study of a virus particle ... a lot of cells and tissues ...

Bats harbor many viruses that can spill over into humans, including Marburg, Ebola, and famously SARS-CoV-2. But while these ...

Viruses carry only a limited set of instructions in their own genetic material, so to reproduce they rely on taking over host cell proteins and functions. Shah's laboratory studies these ...

Right: When the cell is attacked by a virus, NORAD is cut, preventing STAT3 from entering the nucleus. As a result, the STAT1 protein, necessary for activating the immune response, comes into ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle present in eukaryotic cells, including human cells. The ER plays a vital part in making sure proteins are properly constructed, and that they get ...