The following explains what a virus reproduction rate is and why it is important in understanding the implications of ending economic lockdowns aimed at containing the spread. WHAT IS A VIRUS ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical ...

Aa Aa Aa Viruses are the smallest microorganisms in nature. As such, they are obligate parasites, which means that they cannot live or reproduce without a host. Consequently, viruses are found ...

But viruses certainly reproduce, infecting people and causing illnesses. It’s how they reproduce that’s unusual. Viruses lack essential machinery needed to reproduce by themselves. In fact ...

Viral replication relies on the ability of viruses to exit host cells, a process known as viral egress, which is crucial for spreading infection to new ...

Shah is senior author of the team’s published paper in mBio, titled “Microcephaly protein ANKLE2 promotes Zika virus replication.” In the paper, the team concluded that in combination with ...

"When viruses infect cells, they usually create specialized compartments—replication factories—where they form new viruses that infect more cells causing the disease," said first author Dr.

13 in mBio shows that the Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2, which happens to be important for brain development, to assist its own reproduction. Because Zika, unlike most related ...

Shionogi’s oral antiviral for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has met its primary endpoint in a Phase II study that saw ...

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex (the ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2 to support its own reproduction. ANKLE2 is involved in brain development in the fetus and because Zika can cross the placenta and ...