His research involves studying the structure of viruses and how they interface with the cells of their hosts’ bodies — hence the mapping of the Zika antibodies. That structural understanding is key to ...

and interact with host cells to promote infection. We also determine how antibodies and antivirals interact and inhibit viruses, hoping to contribute to the discovery of new means to prevent disease.

In general, viruses attach to different cell surface molecules as the first step of infection. While this study provides ...

Viruses are comparatively simple in structure, consisting of a piece of genetic material (RNA or DNA) enclosed in a protein coat (the capsid). Some also have an outer envelope. Viruses get into your ...

They do not have a metabolism or replicate unless they infect a cell and use the ... have double-stranded DNA, but viruses have different kinds of structure — there are DNA genomes, RNA genomes ...

These ancient viruses didn’t intend to change the structure of their hosts, Ghosh emphasized. Instead, the way this evolutionary concert played out shows something about cells that laypeople often ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects ... surrounded by a protein structure. A bacteriophage attaches itself to a susceptible bacterium and infects the host cell. Following infection ...

The hepatitis E virus affects the liver. But infected liver cells secrete a viral protein that reacts with antibodies in the ...

In general, viruses attach to different cell surface molecules as the first step of infection. While this study provides several still images of the phage structure, the researchers do not ...

Bacterial viruses, known as phages ... these three proteins are ejected into the host to form a genome ejection motor spanning the cell envelope.” The structure of DEV and many other phages resembles ...