As winter settles over Australia, it's not just the drop in temperature we notice—there's also a sharp rise in respiratory ...

MPV tends to hit hardest in young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems. A virologist explains.

We have all heard of antibodies – proteins produced by our bodies to bind to viruses or bacteria, marking them for ...

Inspired by the way viruses attach to cells, EPFL scientists have developed a method for engineering ultra-selective aptamers ...

† Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States ‡ Department of Chemistry and Biophysics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ...

There’s a new virus wiping out Minnesota turkey flocks, and unlike with bird flu the federal government doesn’t cover producers for losses. Last year, Minnesota growers lost an estimated 2.2 ...

The scenes are eerily familiar – crowded hospitals in China overrun by masked patients seeking medical help as infection tears through the population. But this time it's not Covid-19 doing the ...

Infections of the viral disease human metapneumovirus (HMPV) are rising among children northern China, according to Chinese state media. The surge in respiratory virus cases has raised alarm ...

Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a respiratory virus known to cause both upper and lower respiratory tract infections. While it usually results in mild cold-like symptoms in healthy adults, the virus ...

We present a rapid and quantitative method to physically characterize the structure and stability of viruses ... the measured mobility size into the icosahedral dimensions of a virus, which for PR772 ...

"We're using the structure-based information that we've gained here to guide us in improving molecules that we hope will become drug candidates." Knowing the crystal structure of this "doorway ...