A research team at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, has identified a previously unknown cellular mechanism crucial to the ...

In the ongoing fight against viruses, a new scientific approach could bring sweeping change. Instead of targeting the virus ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that human cells initiate self-destruction processes when viruses disrupt RNA production, offering new insights into innate antiviral defenses. Conducted and reported on ...

Using genomics, evolutionary biologists test several hypotheses on the origin of viruses. New evidence suggests they may have ...

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The discovery could serve as a starting point for antiviral strategies. A research team at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, ...

Whether infection of cells by individual virions occurs randomly or if there is some form (s) of competition or cooperativity between individual virions remains largely unknown for most virus-cell ...

Bacteria-killing viruses built from scratch in a University of Pittsburgh lab could be a breakthrough in the battle against ...

Virus entry is thought to involve binding a unique receptor for cell attachment and cytosolic entry. For SARS-CoV-2 underlying the COVID-19 pandemic, angiotensin- converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is widely ...