Ohio State University researchers and their colleagues have identified a new genus of bacteria living inside hydraulic fracturing wells. Researchers analyzing the genomes of microorganisms living...
Infection by the Zika virus diverts a key protein necessary for neural cell division in the developing human fetus, thereby causing the birth defect microcephaly, a team of Yale scientists report...
Microsporidia cause diarrhea, an illness called microsporidiosis and even death in immune-compromised individuals.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the protein that norovirus -- shown here in a colored transmission electron micrograph -- uses to invade cells...
SPP inhibition reduces production of infectious HCV particles and pathogenesis, Researchers at Osaka University, Japan uncovered the mechanisms that suppress the propagation of the hepatitis C vi...
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/07/27/discovery_of_new_hepatitis_c_virus_mechanism.html
This image shows the mapping of the three distinct Zika virus DIII epitopes onto the mature virion. Antibodies that specifically protect against Zika infection have been identified in mice, repor...
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/07/27/mouse_antibodies_pinpoint_zikas_weak_spots.html
This is the structure of the ZIKV helicase in complex with RNA. Zika virus has now become a household word. It can cause microcephaly, a birth defect where a baby's head is smaller than usual. Ad...
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/07/26/cracking_the_mystery_of_zika_virus_replication.html
Zika virus infects numerous primary cell types and explants of the human placenta, suggesting placental and paraplacental routes of virus transmission. Zika virus can infect numerous cell types i...
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have identified two new strains of the HTLV-4 virus in two hunters who were bitten by gorillas in Gabon. These findings, published in the journal...
A new study has found that the little-known member of the human herpesvirus family called HHV-6A infects the lining of the uterus in 43% of women with unexplained infertility but cannot be found ...