A study conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil reveals that tissues such as the tonsils and adenoids can ...

It took just 48 hours for Ben Lopman’s 18-month-old son to go from being an energetic toddler to totally listless ...

Stepping outside the classroom and into the world of research, Alfred University students recently had the opportunity to ...

While largely unnoticed, phages do not harm humans. On the contrary, these viruses are gaining increasing popularity as biomedicines to eradicate pathogenic bacteria, especially those associated with ...

Cases of Borna disease virus 1 (BoDV-1) are extremely rare in humans, but in those who develop disease, the outcome is severe ...

Animal viruses have significantly contributed to understanding cell biology and developing preventive strategies against infectious diseases. Nonetheless, research on human viruses has taken ...

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness. Influenza has to latch onto a receptor on the surface of a human cell so it can ...

Genetics tools have advanced significantly in recent decades, and have allowed scientist to sequence all of the genetic material they find in any sample. That has enabled researchers to discover giant ...

Herpes simplex viruses (HSV) are ubiquitous, double‐stranded DNA viruses that establish lifelong infections in human hosts. Central to their cycle is the process of membrane fusion, which permits ...

Over the last several years, we have experienced an increase of large outbreaks of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in European countries and neighboring areas. This disease poses a great threat ...