Virus-associated cancers are a significant and persistent global health challenge, providing unique insight into the relationship between chronic infection ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes a respiratory illness with systemic immune cell activation, inflammation, widespread multiorgan dysfunction, and thrombosis.

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are investigating how mechanical forces—such as stretching and changes in tissue stiffness—influence viral infection rates in the lungs to understand ...

Nipah virus (NiV), a zoonotic paramyxovirus with significant human health implications, has garnered considerable attention due to its high fatality rates and potential for human-to-human transmission ...

Human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (HPMECs) were treated with GP38 and were stained for endothelial glycocalyx layer component sialic acid by immunofluorescence. Measurement of the ...

Inhibiting the herpes simplex virus type 1 viral enzyme uracil-DNA glycosylase reactivates the natural defense protein apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-1 (APOBEC1) in the ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

A recent study published in Science Translational Medicine involving scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in collaboration with scientists from the Albert ...

Genetic analysis of samples of the deadly MERS virus that has killed 58 people in the Middle East and Europe shows the disease has jumped from animals to humans several times, scientists said on ...