Observational studies of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression have long tied ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

Lipid kinases are enzymes that play a critical role in both cell signaling and membrane trafficking by phosphorylating lipid ...

SARS-CoV-2 has a similar structure to TGEV: an enveloped virus with an outer lipid membrane and three proteins forming the surface. “We collaborated with the University of Tartu in studies of ...

The structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex elucidated using cryoelectron microscopy.

Lipid-enveloped viruses, such as Ebola, influenza, or coronaviruses, are a major threat to human health. Ethanol is an efficient disinfectant that is widely used to inactivate these viruses and ...

Membrane fusion is a fundamental process that is exploited by enveloped viruses to enter host cells. In the case of the influenza virus, fusion is facilitated by the trimeric viral hemagglutinin ...

Again, each worked to a different extent on the three enveloped viruses: some disrupted all three, some only one. However, none of the peptoids could inactivate the non-enveloped coxsackie B3 virus, ...

Researchers suggest new approach may lead to drugs that can be used against many enveloped viruses, and could also help overcome antiviral resistance.

Conversely, the presence of a viral envelope is highly variable. Both enveloped and nonenveloped viruses are dispersed throughout the Eukaryotic virosphere (bacteriophages are primarily nonenveloped), ...