Herpesviruses are a class of double-stranded DNA viruses that comprising a four-layered structure: an envelope, a tegument, a capsid, and a DNA core. They are one of the largest known viruses to date, ...

Using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), researchers at The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, have ...

Researchers at The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, have revealed the first high-resolution renderings of the ...

An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks disease-causing viruses in wastewater identified the measles virus in Houston samples collected in early January 2025, before cases were reported.

For instance, viral skin rashes (and the underlying virus) from rubella, roseola, molluscum contagiosum, chicken pox, fifth disease, measles, and hand-foot-and-mouth disease typically clear up on ...

These fundamental findings offer a novel mechanism by which rubrerythrin tubules encapsulate encapsulin to prevent oxidative stress in Pyrococcus furiosus. However, there are a few reasonable concerns ...

Papua New Guinea reported the presence of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in healthy children from Lae City, Morobe Province, on May 9, 2025. The discovery, stemming from ...

Happy Friday! You may have noticed there was no Pentagon Rundown last week. That’s because I was at the Modern Day Marine exhibition in Washington, D.C., writing about various topics, including ...

Measles is caused by a ssRNA virus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae ... be detectable after the first 3 days of the exanthem. In roseola, after an incubation period of 5–15 days, infected ...

The results undermine the widely circulated (and much contested) view that the virus was manufactured in a lab. The analysis shows that the ancestor of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 ...