The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The ...

A study reveals how two proteins cooperate in a key early step of antiviral detection, as reported by researchers at Science ...

Pictorial representation of the working principle of a functionalized Carbon Dots (CDs) and Ethidium Bromide (EB) based ratiometric fluorosensor (Func sensor). In a significant advancement, ...

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma ...

“Our analyses show that the historical [human Rhinovirus] A genome represents an extinct lineage closely related to HRV A19 ...

For much of modern biology, scientists argued that viruses are not alive, pointing to a basic limitation: they cannot make ...

For people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), life-saving antiretroviral therapy keeps their HIV-infected immune cells from making new copies of the virus, preventing illness and ...

Background: Toys in pediatric office waiting rooms may be fomites for transmission of viruses. Methods: Eighteen samples were taken from office objects on 3 occasions. Samples were tested for presence ...