His research involves studying the structure of viruses and how they interface with the cells of their hosts’ bodies — hence the mapping of the Zika antibodies. That structural understanding is key to ...

Researchers have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The ...

The dengue virus has a roughly spherical shape. Inside the virus is the nucleocapsid, which is made of the viral genome and C proteins. The nucleocapsid is surrounded by a membrane called the ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread ...

Further investigation by the Zhang and Lazear labs revealed that this frozen, stable RNA structure ... degraded by the host cell, altogether enhancing the ability of the virus to make more copies ...

DNA is a super flexible and modular structure, meaning that with the right sequences ... in theory, cordon the virus off from a potential host cell and prevent infection, though the team didn’t test ...

To find the answer, they developed a way to observe and measure real-time influenza A virus structure during formation ... The study assessed 16 different virus-cell combinations that resulted ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine with collaborators at Pennsylvania State University report in Nature Communications a strategy Zika virus uses to covertly spread in placental cells ...