It started as a respiratory illness – or so everyone thought. But it quickly became apparent that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...

Influenza A virus particle can strategically adapt their shape, becoming either spheres or filaments, to favor their ability ...

Once inside human cells, HIV integrates the viral genome into that of the human host. Ultimately, the virus uses our body's machinery to produce copies of itself and spread infection. The HIV-1 ...

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape -- to become either spheres or larger filaments -- to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according ...

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 ...

The plant immune system, which differs significantly from that of humans, utilises small RNA sequences to deactivate or ...

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

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 ...

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

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