The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections. To aid ...

A rare cell in the lining of lungs is fundamental to the organ-wide response necessary to repair damage from toxins like ...

Worldwide, at least seven people have been "cured" of HIV—or at least have had long-term sustained remission. This means that ...

So despite the success of HIV drugs and PrEP, precarious health-care systems and high drug costs mean we can't rely on them to bring an end to the ongoing global HIV pandemic. Tha ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Scientists in Spain and China discovered that HSV-1 begins rewriting the architecture of human genes just one hour after ...

But in a recent breakthrough, researchers have uncovered a surprisingly simple target in the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), ...

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help itself grow ...

These siRNAs then guide the plant’s defence system to recognise and destroy the viral RNA, preventing the infection from spreading. But this process is far from perfect.

Mosquitoes have been transmitting the West Nile virus to humans in the United States for over 25 years, but we still don’t know precisely how the virus cycles through these pests and the ...

That some virus types contain just RNA strongly suggests that viruses predate cells, Anantharaman said. The virus-first hypothesis is still the most widely accepted among evolutionary biologists.

Viruses have genomes, too. A virus genome can be made of DNA or a similar molecule called RNA. Compared to your genome, a virus genome is tiny. For example, coronaviruses such as the one that ...