A team of chemists and microbiologists at Michigan State University has found that an all-optical method can be used to ...

Scientists have developed a simulation method incorporating quantum mechanics to model the electronic structure of nearly ...

Viruses are masters at disguise. When they are pushed too far by our immune system, they send new virus variants into play ...

By altering the metabolism of the skin, the Zika virus guarantees its own survival, resulting in turning humans into mosquito ...

The antibody targets a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and offer long-term protection against the globally spreading airborne infection.

(THE CONVERSATION) In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as stomach flu, norovirus infections cause watery diarrhea, low-grade ...

A unique reaction in which antibodies bind to other antibodies may help scientists at Scripps Research better understand how ...

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

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

Researchers have profiled the molecular structure and features of a key part of the deadly Nipah virus. Experiments in cells showe how changes in the viral polymerase -- a protein involved in viral ...

The work provides a detailed three-dimensional picture of the virus's polymerase and its key features. Understanding the ...