Study in pigs shows influenza induces faster antibody response, clears quickly, while PRCV causes prolonged infection, more ...

Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, ...

Researchers have used human brain organoids to demonstrate that Ebola virus can replicate in neural tissue for up to 120 days, offering new insights into viral persistence mechanisms in ...

Coronavirus (CoV) possesses numerous functional cis-acting elements in its positive-strand genomic RNA. Although most of these RNA structures participate in viral replication, the functions of RNA ...

To better understand BKPyV replication and ways to prevent it, researchers in the UAB Department of Microbiology have published a single-cell analysis of BKPyV infection in primary kidney cells. Their ...

The influenza virus is a respiratory pathogen of the Orthomyxoviridae family responsible for seasonal influenza epidemics in humans. It is estimated to cause 3–5 million cases of severe infection and ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves. Herpes simplex ...

Giant viruses defy microbiological norms Lead author Laura Perini and her team at the Department of Environmental Science at ...

Zika virus hijacks a key protein implicated in brain development for its own replication. Researchers led by Associate Professor Priya Shah at the University of California, Davis (CA, USA), have ...