Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have made an exciting discovery : a virus found in the ocean called ...

Zika virus, infamous for causing microcephaly, manipulates a host protein called ANKLE2 to assist its replication, which also ...

Aerosols play a critical role in the transmission of airborne pathogens by acting as carriers that transport pathogens ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer A new study found a link between human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a common type of herpes virus, ...

Bird flu viruses normally attach to a type of cell receptor that is rare in human upper airways, which is believed to be one of the reasons why H5N1 doesn’t easily infect people and does not ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore General Hospital have discovered that T cells-white blood cells that can destroy harmful pathogens-can completely prevent viral infection, to ...

In a new study, researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have discovered a new way that bacteria can kill its ...

The mutations observed in the patient could help the virus more easily infect cells in the upper respiratory tract, C.D.C. investigators concluded. But the mutations were found in the later stages ...

Genetic analysis of H5N1 bird flu viruses from a severely ill patient in Louisiana revealed multiple mutations that may enhance the virus’s ability to bind to human upper airway cells ...

A new study, published in Nature Microbiology by researchers from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, reveals a previously unknown mode of resistance. The study was led by Prof. Debbie ...

A new role has been uncovered for a cell's ... both infection and autoimmunity. Scientists have uncovered a new role for a cell's own RNA in fending off attacks by RNA viruses.