Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...
How does the body react after contracting the deadly NiV? Expert explains how the Nipah virus attacks the brain, leading to ...
The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple sclerosis and lupus. But why do ...
An artistic depiction of a jumbo phage infecting a bacterium, with the EPI vesicle (circle) shown protecting the phage DNA material, which is preparing to form a nucleus by synthesizing RNA (magenta) ...
A newly identified mechanism lends credence to the idea that MS may be treatable by targeting EBV-infected B-cells, a study found.
India, Jan. 29 -- As Nipah virus cases re-emerge in parts of India, including Kerala and West Bengal, health authorities ...
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein that is crucial for the TBE virus to infect human cells. The discovery, published in the journal ...
A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...
As part of their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) can establish an infection in liver cells, researchers led by teams at Memorial Sloan ...
A new study shows the intricacies of the cold virus and how it interacts with nasal airway cells, revealing why some people ...