Zika virus, infamous for causing microcephaly, manipulates a host protein called ANKLE2 to assist its replication, which also ...

Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses ...

In a recent study, researchers from Uppsala University have shown that the Semliki Forest virus enters the central nervous ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results ...

A chronic gut infection caused by a common virus may be linked to the progression of Alzheimer ’s disease, a new study has ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore General Hospital have discovered that T cells—white blood cells ...

Semliki Forest virus was originally isolated from mosquitoes in the Semliki Forest, Uganda, hence the name. Upon systemic ...

A study using lab-made models of the brain suggests that a herpes virus may be a key link between concussions and dementia ...

In both of those cases, virus samples showed that once it was in the body, it mutated in ways that would allow it to stick to ...

A University of Denver virologist and biophysicist is one step closer to understanding how HIV spreads once it enters the ...