Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team from the Helmholtz Center for ...

Studies show how spike protein changes determine the risk of viral outbreaks, offering important insights for the future ...

Viruses use receptors—molecules found on the surface of cells—to attach to and enter those cells. Different animal species have different types of receptors. So for a virus to infect humans and spread ...

The spike protein of the coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, binds to ACE2, a receptor on the host cells, which allows the virus to enter the cells and infect it. Binding is the first step for infection, and ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect ... First discovered more than a century ago, phages latch onto specific receptors on the surface of a bacterial cell and inject ...

Viruses are the agents of many diseases ... Lentiviruses have also seen clinical success in generating CAR T cells and cancer vaccines. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies involve the ...

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.

The study shows that the virus manipulates a protein that normally helps regulate which genes should be active in the cell, turning this protein against the immune system. The protein, referred to ...

"Over time, we saw a progressive increase in the proportion of memory B cells recognizing the receptor-binding domain ... individuals who had been exposed to the virus prior to vaccination ...