A common virus carried by most humans could trigger lupus, offering new clues for preventing and treating this dangerous ...

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness.

Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic ...

How can a virus with only five proteins dominate a human cell that contains thousands? This question has long puzzled ...

Surface proteins on a virus enable it to attach to and get inside a cell to start replicating. koto_feja/E+ via Getty Images COVID-19, flu, mpox, noroviral diarrhea: How do the viruses that cause ...

We know that the process of viral uptake into cells begins with interactions between proteins hemagglutinin and neuraminidase ...

In 2020, as scientists around the world were racing to understand COVID-19, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv and his team at the Weizmann ...

For the first time, a new high-resolution microscopy technique has allowed researchers to watch live as influenza viruses ...

A recent study in the journal PNAS from the lab of Julie Overbaugh reveals a previously unknown antiviral function of a gene ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the proteins that they need to replicate. Occasionally, a retrovirus will embed ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham have modified a herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) that stimulates the immune system to attack ...

Scientists have captured a never-before-seen, high-resolution look at influenza’s stealthy invasion of human cells, revealing ...