Matthew Taylor and Gary Dunn examined how different producer cells can result in differences in the viruses they are used to cultivate.

Nearly $6 million in new NIH grants will enable Penn State researcher and colleagues to investigate how Zika virus replicates and crosses the placenta to infect unborn children UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — ...

Peter Kasson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Commonwealth Health Research Board, and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He is ...

Researchers have shown for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma, initiates DNA replication in host cells. University ...

Ivan Erill receives funding from the US National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Have you ever wondered whether the virus that gave you a nasty cold ...

The vast diversity of living organisms on earth represents the evolvability of life. However, this inherent characteristic can be easily influenced by several mechanisms that can increase the ...

Have you ever wondered whether the virus that gave you a nasty cold can catch one itself? It may comfort you to know that, yes, viruses can actually get sick. Even better, as karmic justice would have ...

How do viruses do their job of infecting humans? Some of them are experts at evading the immune system so that it won't knock them out. Take hepatitis C, a sneaky and potentially deadly viral ...

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