The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us all the importance of educating the public about viral infections. Besides educating the general public, we need to equip the next generation of scientists by ...

The virus takes control of three key host proteins that suppress the activity of the complement system. Researchers at the ...

Viruses work by taking control of our cells and carefully reprogramming them into machines to make more viruses. Because of ...

So, researchers at Northwestern started their journey to figure out why this might be happening. They discovered when someone gets badly infected with COVID, the virus can actually enter the ...

There are many processes and proteins that help the body fight a flu infection. One of them is known as IFITM3. | ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to heightened public interest in learning about viruses and how they can cause diseases. There has ...

A new clinical study shows that an inhibitor of Fas ligand (FasL), also called CD95 ligand (CD95L), led to a faster recovery ...

The ascension of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, to the nation’s top health post has alarmed medical ...

An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection – among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

A study reveals that the immune protein IFITM3 limits flu infection severity and mutation rates, especially from zoonotic ...