Cold sore virus takes over human DNA within just one hour, study finds - Study is first to prove that herpes virus reshapes ...

Mosquitoes are vectors for lots of viruses transmitted to humans—dengue fever, malaria, West Nile, yellow fever, and Zika ...

Cleveland Clinic virology researchers have found that a specific protein modification to the immune protein MDA5 is key to how human bodies detect and respond to viruses and viral replication. This ...

A research team at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, has identified a previously unknown cellular mechanism crucial to the replication of coronaviruses: c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) is activated ...

To better understand BKPyV replication and ways to prevent it, researchers in the UAB Department of Microbiology have published a single-cell analysis of BKPyV infection in primary kidney cells. Their ...

Study in pigs shows influenza induces faster antibody response, clears quickly, while PRCV causes prolonged infection, more ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves. Herpes simplex ...

Can newly identified antiviral compounds help stop some of the most dangerous mosquito-borne viruses that attack the brain? A ...

Mosquitoes carry some of the world's deadliest viruses, biting victim after victim for their entire lives without ever ...

DNA replication in viral systems encompasses a remarkable variety of strategies that exploit or mimic cellular machinery. Small DNA viruses often encode a multifunctional helicase–primase complex that ...