Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details explaining how poxviruses manipulate host cells to enhance their ...

CAR T cell therapy is one of the most promising new cancer treatments to emerge in recent years. It involves removing a ...

Complementary discoveries have the potential to enhance treatment options for antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers at ...

Researchers at Tufts University revealed a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene, pointing to a component of the ...

“Although individual vaccines have been developed and approved for use in humans against SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses, ...

“Commonly known as the stomach flu, norovirus has been around forever, and has become the leading cause of gastroenteritis or ...

Bats carry viral pathogens that typically do not lead to severe disease in the bats themselves but can be lethal to humans. Adaptations in certain immune genes might contribute to this resistance.

Viral proteins are proteins generated by a virus. As viruses hijack much of their host's cellular machinery to support their life cycle, they encode very few of their own genes; viral proteins are ...

APOBECs are part of a first response team of proteins used to fight off viral infection until the adaptive part of the immune system can generate antibodies and killer T cells. They work by ...