According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 67 confirmed human cases of H5N1 bird flu ...

Scientists have discovered a new virus in American shrews and have raised concerns about its potential ability to infect ...

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

The Nature of Viruses Viruses are microscopic entities that require a host's cellular machinery to replicate. Unlike bacteria ...

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

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in China in December 2019, rapidly spread worldwide, ...

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 ...

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

A new advance may make it possible to use off-the-shelf CAR T cells provided by healthy donors. The new approach studied in mice equipped CAR T cells with the viral protein Nef.

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled “A single mutation in ...

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