Seeking to mimic self-assembly processes that occur naturally, RIKEN researchers have demonstrated that the self-assembly of ...

As scientists, we often think we understand a virus—its structure, its tricks, the way it moves through the body. But every ...

A new artificial intelligence tool could aid in limiting or even prevent pandemics by identifying animal species that may ...

Scientists still disagree on whether viruses are truly alive or not. What scientists can agree on is that a virus adapts to ...

This study reveals how SV40 helicase unwinds DNA, highlighting ATP hydrolysis's role in translocation and offering insights ...

Viral contamination in cell cultures poses significant challenges, particularly due to the necessity for complex detection ...

Jamaican fruit bats support disseminated infection of Ebola but not Marburg virus. The differences in ... Furthermore, germinal center T follicular helper cells do not harbor the inducible ...

You can increase white blood cells (WBCs) by taking certain medications and eating immune-boosting foods, like yogurt, lean protein foods, antioxidant-rich vegetables, and more. Maintaining a normal ...

Their focus was on parts of the virus genome that stay the same across all known HIV strains and cure HIV-infected T cells. This approach aims to provide a comprehensive therapy able to fight ...

But that changed with the emergence of the Omicron variant in late 2021, which was laden with changes to its ‘spike’ protein that helped it to dodge antibody responses (the spike protein allows the ...

In many cases, an antigen is a bacterium, fungus, virus, toxin, or foreign body. But it can also be a cell that is faulty or dead. The immune system detects pathogen-associated molecular patterns ...

The virus can damage the immune system in a process ... "Measles infects immune cells, and when it does so, it damages immune cells and it partially wipes out your immune system's memory to ...