Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, ...
New research shows feverish temperatures make it more difficult for viruses to hijack our cells. A mouse study suggests it's ...
SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues to mutate, with some newer strains becoming less responsive to current antiviral treatments like Paxlovid. Now, University of California San Diego ...
Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread. By tracing the shared architecture between long-extinct retroviruses and ...
A virus carried by 95% of adults from childhood may trigger bladder cancer decades later by damaging cells during immune ...
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Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic ...
Using genomics, evolutionary biologists test several hypotheses on the origin of viruses. New evidence suggests they may have emerged more times than previously thought. Corroborating the virus-first ...
On the left is integrase in its “intasome” structure of four identical four-part complexes (pink) that connect to create one 16-part complex that locks around viral DNA (blue). On the right is ...
A research group has demonstrated that overexpression of Cdc10-dependent transcript 1 (CDT1), a key regulator of DNA ...