The tiny shell protecting the HIV virus resembles a slightly rounded ice cream cone, but there is nothing sweet about it. More than 40 million people worldwide live with AIDS because of this virus, ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. They have revealed a ...

Viral mimic systems and other tech platforms could enable local testing of vaccine candidates and antiviral therapies. This is important in the context of low-resourced health settings, Africa's focus ...

We are now approaching six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, yet talk of vaccines and our immune systems persists in our cultural conversations—from ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...