Dengue, an Aedes mosquito-borne viral infection, has been a crucial public health concern during the monsoon in our country ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

This review focuses on the putative molecules and mechanisms involved in the complex process of dengue virus binding and entry into mosquito and mammalian cells in primary infections.

There has been a massive rise in the number of cases of infectious diseases across the world – and one of their most common ...

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have identified compounds that can fight off viral infection by activating a ...

A new study, published recently in Nature Communications, offers the first-ever map of which parts of the Chikungunya virus trigger the strongest response from the body's T cells.

A drug that targets two parts of the deadly Nipah virus protects against infection in hamsters. And once an animal is ...

Zika virus's non-structural protein NS1 (red) and mitochondria (green) travel through the tunneling nanotube (TNT, gray) from infected to uninfected placental cells. This is the first time that Zika ...

A tiny insect called a midge spreads the disease, and the earliest known case dates back to 1955 in a forest worker near a ...