Nipah virus and Hendra virus are bat-borne zoonotic pathogens responsible for outbreaks of encephalitis and respiratory illness. Notably, these henipaviruses have fatality rates between 50% and 100%.

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus ...

Researchers have shed light on how a highly infectious virus, that has recently transferred from animals to people, is able to enter human cells. The University of Queensland's Dr Ariel Isaacs and Dr ...

A new discovery points the way toward an effective HCV vaccine. A team led by scientists at Scripps Research and the University of Amsterdam has achieved an important goal in virology: mapping, at ...

In a rare but serious complication of cancer, the body’s own immune system can start attacking the brain, causing rapid-onset memory loss and cognitive deficits. What triggers this sudden biological ...

One of the defining features of viruses is that they rely on host proteins in order to reproduce. A host cell will often copy viral genes into RNAs and then translate those RNAs into proteins, for ...