Viruses have no metabolism of their own and must therefore infect host cells in order to replicate. Contact between the virus and the cell surface is a crucial first step, which can also prevent ...

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opts its host’s systems with the help of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 14, a team of scientists at Boston University released a pre-print study reporting that they had created a version of ...

The film discusses the nature of viruses, including their structure, reproduction, and the diseases they cause. It explains how viruses are incredibly small and require a host cell to survive and ...

Scientists at Duke University have created a real-time video that captures the frantic movements of a single virus as it tries to infect a cell. The video shows a part of the process that’s normally ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to watch the flu virus live as it infects human airway cells. They developed a ...

ST. LOUIS -- Even as scientists were confirming that the West Nile virus had reached St. Louis, researchers here already have been trying to pinpoint why the mosquito-transmitted form of encephalitis ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki -- A research team led by the Tokyo University of Science and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences ...