“Our study shows how the most important environmental and genetic risk factors can contribute to MS and trigger an autoimmune ...

One of the big debates in long COVID research is whether the virus can persist in the body, or whether it leaves the immune ...

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis arise when the immune system turns against the body itself. Yet for most of ...

Learn how a newly discovered virus disrupts its host’s nucleus in ways that echo how complex cells may have formed billions ...

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses.

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness. Influenza has to latch onto a receptor on the surface of a human cell so it can ...

A virus cell on the nano spiked silicon surface, magnified 65,000 times. After 1 hour it has already begun to leak material. Researchers at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) ...

Scientists are testing CRISPR gene editing as a potential HIV cure after successfully removing the virus from infected cells ...

New research reveals how ocean viruses burst algae cells, fueling a subsurface oxygen band through rapid microbial recycling.

A study finds that diverse flowers sometimes increase virus spread among bees, challenging assumptions about biodiversity, ...