The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results in a smaller-than-expected head. A new study shows that the Zika virus ...

Zika virus is unusual in that it can cross the placenta and enter the fetus, where ANKLE2 is known to play a big role in brain development.

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

Study reveals that contemporary HPAI H5N1 viruses show reduced replication and immune activation in human lung organoids, ...

We usually think about EHV in its respiratory form in young equine athletes, but it can have devastating impacts on breeding operations ...

It is noteworthy that in zero gravity, astronauts lose bone density by up to 12 percent in just six months. This could make childbirth in space dangerous.

A discovery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) that a viral protein helps a cancer-associated ...

Australian researchers engineered a new way to hinder the reproduction of disease-carrying mosquitoes using the TMT.

Viral reverse transcriptase (RT) plays a critical role in replication (e.g., retroviruses, that reverse transcribe RNA ...

The BC Centre for Disease Control says it is comparing the genetic features of a local teenager's avian flu case with that of ...