Influenza epidemics, caused by influenza A or B viruses, result in acute respiratory infection. They kill half a million people worldwide every year. These viruses can also wreak havoc on animals, as ...

Peter Kasson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Commonwealth Health Research Board, and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He is ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even curing—the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve.

Scientists at La Trobe University have discovered a previously unknown way viruses could spread around the body, potentially ...

A few months into his postdoctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine in 2021, Rafael Michita made a curious observation.

A tickborne virus uses cholesterol receptors to worm its way into the cell. Monteil and her colleagues first investigated where the virus might attach to cells. To do that, the researchers randomly ...

They disable our defenses and hijack the cellular machinery in order to multiply successfully. For example, the herpes ...

The herpesvirus can manipulate our DNA with far more precision than previously thought. The virus condenses and changes the shape of our genetic material to hijack the host genes needed for ...

Millions of people who recover from infections like COVID-19, influenza and glandular fever are affected by long-lasting symptoms. These include chronic fatigue, brain fog, exercise intolerance, ...

Understanding the interaction between immune cells and cancer cells has important implications for cancer immunotherapies, ...