Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the cellular gateway ...

Scientists recently published findings indicating that Ebola virus creates and uses intercellular tunnels to move from cell to cell and evade treatments. Understanding how viruses travel once inside ...

For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein that is crucial for ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein that is crucial for ...

Influenza epidemics, caused by influenza A or B viruses, result in acute respiratory infection. They kill half a million people worldwide every year. These viruses can also wreak havoc on animals, as ...

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...

Mutations can result in viruses that infect cells, but can't copy themselves without help from other viruses - now it seems ...

In a growing global trend, bacteria are evolving new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections. The rising antibiotic resistance crisis poses a significant public health ...

The prospect of an outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle triggering a pandemic in humans is one step closer than ...