The majority of children do not need a tonsillectomy.” But when done for the right reasons, tonsillectomy offers a meaningful ...

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds - ticks.

In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed ...

A previously unknown structure discovered in our cells could pave the way toward new treatments for various genetic disorders ...

Researchers successfully decoded the genome of the 1918 influenza virus by utilizing an over 100-year-old formalin-fixed ...

Within hours of infection, the virus targets critical components of the host cell’s machinery, including the human RNA-polymerase II enzyme, which helps it create proteins.

Scientists have now found that a group of viruses found in bats, which are close relatives of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), may be only one mutation from gaining the ...

CRISPR construct to genetically ablate the GABA transporter GAT3 in the mouse visual cortex, with effects on population-level neuronal activity. This work is important, as it sheds light on how GAT3 ...

In vitro cell culture models can at best demonstrate infectivity by the virus but are not suitable to study viral life cycle because of very low levels of viral replication.

The filoviruses Ebola and Marburg use several different and effective mechanisms to both evade and battle the immune system. This Review explores recent findings in the filovirus–host-defence ...

The Structure of Viruses The electron microscope reveals that these infectious particles possess three principal types of symmetry.