A new study says the flu A viral strain can adapt shape to stay infectious. Infectious disease doctors break down what this ...

They say that change takes time. Well, that's not the case for RNA. The small biological molecule acts like a switchboard ...

Protein complex in bacterial cell membrane acts like a rotary motor to recruit DNA-degrading enzymes to defend against phage ...

Titania nanoparticles damage enveloped viruses by directly binding with membrane phospholipids – a previously unknown mode of antiviral action ...

In a breakthrough for influenza research, scientists have discovered immune cells that can recognize influenza (flu) viruses ...

UCSF scientists are taking the first steps toward creating a new type of antibiotic that uses an unusual virus to defeat ...

Table 1 below provides an overview of the key features of a prokaryotic cell: Table 1. The structure and function of key prokaryotic cell structures. Prokaryotes have ribosomes but they are smaller ...

One “confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak” in ... assessing the risk at the national level as “high”. That report has not been confirmed by Tanzania.

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure ... is published in Cell in the paper, “Structural and functional analysis of the Nipah virus polymerase ...