The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny virus invades one of our cells, that cell must detect it and, within minutes, ...

Ancient viral DNA in bacteria helps block new infections, offering a potential path to fight antibiotic resistance.

The FCS in SARS-CoV-2 is one of the features that helps it to infect humans. So finding something very similar in this new ...

For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the ...

A bird flu virus that has often been ignored because it mostly causes minor disease in birds has the potential to cause a ...

New study reveals how human astroviruses bind to humans cells and paves the way for new therapies and vaccines ...

The DuBois lab at the Baskin School of Engineering studies the molecular structure of viruses—mostly those that primarily ...

Multiple viral infections are common after stem cell transplants, especially in patients with CMV exposure, haploidentical ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified central routes that two deadly viruses take to invade human cells and have designed decoy molecules that block the ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune disease that results from the destruction of insulin-producing β-cells in the ...