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

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein on the surface of ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, affects more than just the lungs and airways. Here's how this virus enters cells and the symptoms that can arise from infecting different parts of the body.

Zika virus hijacks a key protein implicated in brain development for its own replication. Researchers led by Associate Professor Priya Shah at the University of California, Davis (CA, USA), have ...

Feb 21 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...