A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, ...

A virus that typically infects black-eyed peas is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy—and ...

Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than ...

Researchers from Cornell and Northwestern universities have developed a rapid, cell-free method for building nanoparticle ...

Hendra virus is a highly lethal zoonotic pathogen primarily transmitted from flying foxes to horses and occasionally humans, ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered how a key protein from the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), EBNA-LP, fundamentally rewires the three-dimensional structure of DNA in infected B cells to ...

A newly discovered parasite has caused quite a stir among microbiologists who were left scrambling to place it on the tree of life – and it seems even the organism itself is confused as to its ...

Though Ebola is a potentially deadly virus, Harty and colleagues can safely study its workings in a Biosafety Level 2 laboratory, substituting virus-like particles (VLPs) that express VP40 for the ...

T icks are tiny creatures that can stick their pincers into humans and pass on some nasty disease-causing viruses, including the Crimean Congo virus. This pathogen causes an illness that starts out ...

Zika virus hijacks a key protein implicated in brain development for its own replication. Researchers led by Associate Professor Priya Shah at the University of California, Davis (CA, USA), have ...