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You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8% of your genome actually comes from viruses that got ...
Cryo-EM reconstruction showing the surface of the Zika virus is shown. A team led by Purdue University researchers is the first to determine the structure of the Zika virus, which provided insights ...
Rates of the Powassan virus infections — which can cause seizures and paralysis — are increasing across North America. Researchers from Penn State, the University of Minnesota and the ...
The University of Queensland's Dr Ariel Isaacs and Dr Yu Shang Low have uncovered the structure of the fusion protein of Langya virus, which was discovered in people in eastern China in August 2022.
"Structure of the hepatitis C virus E1E2 glycoprotein complex" was co-authored by Alba Torrents de la Peña, Lisa Eshun-Wilson, Gabriel Lander, and Andrew Ward, of Scripps Research; Kwinten ...
Focused mostly on history, Viruses from Structure to Biology reminds us that scientific progress continues despite war, political upheavals, and other man-dominated events.
Powassan virus (POWV), a type of flavivirus closely related to the Zika and Dengue viruses, is an emerging tick-borne virus ...
Scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in Prague have deciphered the structure of the protein methyltransferase from the monkeypox virus. It is with the help of this ...
The virus that causes COVID-19 has the ability to alter the genome structure of cells, which may play a role in long COVID-19, according to new findings from researchers at UTHealth Houston.
A Purdue University researcher is developing a technology that mimics viruses to deliver nucleic acid-based therapies to targeted cancer cells.