The Human Virome Program will analyse samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect ...

Supercomputer simulations have revealed how changes in the shape of the HIV-1 capsid protein may help the virus squeeze its inner core into the host cell's nuclear membrane. The findings ...

Scientists discovered a way to block hepatitis B infection using an anticancer drug, offering hope for new treatments.

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...

Learn how the herpes virus hijacks immune pathways to trigger reactivation and what this means for potential new treatments.

Dennis D'Amico, associate professor of animal science, has demonstrated that bacteriophages can effectively reduce the amount ...

For over a century, scientists have analyzed the vast microbial world within the human body. They’ve found bacteria, fungi, ...

Bird flu. With that diagnosis in mind, one of Russo’s colleagues tried to get some bovine samples tested for H5N1, but the ...

Targeted molecular interventions in the replication cycle and the immune recognition of viruses are intended to prevent viral entry into cells and virus replication.

A small U.S. study explored whether immune markers seen in many long COVID sufferers are also present in people with ...

Researchers used cryo-EM, glycoproteomics, and modeling to generate the atomic structure of a fully glycosylated and membrane ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that ...