FEW of us had heard of the Chinese city of Wuhan when the world was first paralysed by Covid-19 five years ago. Today, the ...

In 2015, an outbreak of Zika virus triggered an epidemic in the Americas. People infected with Zika, typically via a mosquito ...

The antibodies attach to a part of the virus that doesn't appear to mutate, potentially allowing them to work on multiple ...

Knowledge-building extension: Use the Biology of SARS-CoV-2 resource from HHMI BioInteractive, including four animations about the structure, replication, evolution, and treatment of the virus, along ...

Viruses like the one that causes COVID-19 constantly mutate, rendering many antibody treatments ineffective. A Stanford-led ...

What about viruses? Would you consider them living or nonliving? Let’s look closely at the life cycle of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – the virus that causes AIDS – to find out. This ...

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

The 3.0 Å resolution crystal structure of Pariacoto virus (PaV) reveals extensive interactions between portions of the viral RNA genome and the icosahedral capsid. Under the protein shell of the ...

Ebola-like virus found in person who travelled to the UK - Lassa fever does not spread easily between people and the overall ...

We live in an era when human activities are negatively modifying the world at alarming rates. We are experiencing a massive ...

Future Virology. 2010;5(4):469-479. Other viral proteases that permit the virus to escape the host immune response have been described. Severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus ...