Lassa virus, a severe and potentially fatal infection prevalent in West Africa, has long posed a significant health threat. With no widely approved treatments or vaccines available, scientists at ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — One of the first things the general of any army does before a battle is scout the terrain. Without seeing and understanding the battlefield, the issues of tactics, strategy and ...

Until now, the structure and function of the Nipah virus polymerase remained poorly understood, researchers said, cautioning that further research would be needed to fully understand how the ...

Researchers have determined the structure of the Zika virus. The “near-atomic level map” shows Zika to be similar to the dengue virus, and other flaviviruses. The one key difference lies in a ...

The mimivirus is the largest virus known to scientists, about half of a micrometre (0.0005 millimeter) in diameter. It is more than 10 times larger than the virus that causes the common cold and ...

As CCoV-HuPn-2018 has been recently isolated in a child's respiratory swab, researchers from the University Of Washington have been examining the structure of the virus.

Structure of tick-borne virus revealed at atomic resolution for the first time by Pennsylvania State University edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

The Ren lab has previously shown that this is the case for the influenza A virus, the only known type of influenza that can cause flu pandemics, and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Scientists have identified a structure in host cells which the novel coronavirus likely uses to synthesise components that will be assembled into fully infectious viruses, an advance which may ...