The new bat coronavirus was discovered in Brazil and has a spike protein that is 72% similar to the one found in the Middle ...

FEW of us had heard of the Chinese city of Wuhan when the world was first paralysed by Covid-19 five years ago. Today, the ...

Perhaps all viruses arose via a mechanism yet to be uncovered. Today's basic research in fields like microbiology, genomics, and structural biology may provide us with answers to this basic question.

The Zika virus builds tiny tunnels, called tunneling nanotubes, to stealthily transport material needed to infect nearby ...

Knowledge-building extension: Use the Biology of SARS-CoV-2 resource from HHMI BioInteractive, including four animations about the structure, replication, evolution, and treatment of the virus, along ...

This resistance is emerging regardless of the virus clade. In the United States in 2022, around 1% of patients treated with tecovirimat developed drug resistance. The Structural Biology of ...

Future Virology. 2010;5(4):469-479. Other viral proteases that permit the virus to escape the host immune response have been described. Severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus ...