Long before Westeros, fantasy and science-fiction author George R.R. Martin had a hand in creating Wild Cards, a shared science-fiction universe involving a pathogen called the "Wild Card" virus that ...

In a human cell-based brain model, repetitive physical injuries reactivate the common virus, Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1), ...

Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain ... The video shows an animation of a computer simulation trajectory, in which a model capsid (tan) assembles within and buds through a ...

The researchers used virus-tracing and cell-tagging techniques ... highly useful, and inexpensive model system for therapeutic testing. “These explants serve as excellent tissue models for ...

The antiviral combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir (brand name Paxlovid) is an effective treatment for people with COVID ...

The only natural host of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is humans. Model organisms for laboratory studies, especially mice, ...

George R. R. Martin, the author behind the popular fantasy novel series 'A Song of Ice and Fire', has teamed up with Ian Tregillis, a contributor to Martin’s 'Wild Cards' superhero series, to ...

The biggest filovirus outbreak, caused by Ebola virus, occurred in three West African countries from 2014 to 2016. It killed more than 11,000 people and infected more than 28,000. More recently ...

Bringing all the components to make viruses in one place makes replication more efficient and also helps hide the virus from the immune system. "Our current model is that ANKLE2 is really ...