A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated ...

Glycoproteins typically bind to receptors on the membrane of a host cell. Viruses that do not bud from the host cell membrane do not have an envelope, so they are called “naked” or ...

Scientists have discovered how human norovirus creates special compartments inside cells to help it multiply and spread.

Were there already viruses on Earth when the first living ... a collection of metabolic reactions enclosed within a membrane.

Human norovirus, the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis accounting for an estimated 685 million cases and approximately ...

“When viruses infect cells, they usually create specialized compartments ... some replication factories typically are not ...

When they detect the presence of RNA viruses, they activate interferons through the mitochondrial antiviral signaling (MAVS) pathway. The MAVS protein resides on the outer membrane of a cell's ...

We don’t know much about the regulation of endocytosis and cell-to-cell transport in the muco-ciliary epithelium of the upper respiratory tract. Viruses, on the other hand, know all about it. We use ...

Each virus has a certain kind of cell that it ... where it links to the cell membrane of its host. To find the right docking equipment, so to speak, the team researched past examples of the ...

Research on norovirus replication hubs reveals RNA polymerase's key role in viral replication, offering potential antiviral ...

The fate of a Canadian teenager who was infected with H5N1 bird flu in early November, and subsequently admitted to an intensive care unit, has finally been revealed: She has fully recovered. But ...