Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...

New research by scientists at the University of Toronto and the Structural Genomics Consortium has deepened our understanding ...

Researchers have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables HIV-1 to evade the body's natural defenses and use it to support its survival and replication. The 'loophole' is a biological ...

Viruses are natural delivery systems for nucleic acids, but they have several significant drawbacks: They aren’t targeted to any one cell type, for instance, and they can’t be re-dosed—the ...

A whimsical adventure unfolds inside a body where germs plot to invade and make it sick. The protagonist, Andy, learns about ...

We found that fusion of normal differentiated human cells by an infectious virus, but not the infection itself, caused cell-cycle arrest 12. This observation led us to propose that a cell-cycle ...

Giant viruses, like the ones found in Yellowstone's hot springs, have been turning up in many odd corners of the planet.

Researchers have identified the origin of cardiac cells using 3D images of a heart forming in real-time, inside a living mouse embryo.

What stands out, in our era of battling cartoon versions of each other online, is that its heroine actually goes out and talks to people. Lyonne’s character, Charlie Cale, lives out of her car while ...