Viruses

  • Tick-Borne Lone Star Virus Identified Through New Super-Fast Gene Sequencing
    The tick-borne Lone Star virus has been conclusively identified as part of a family of other tick-borne viruses called bunyaviruses, which often cause fever, respiratory problems and bleeding, according to new research led by scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF). ...More
    4 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • USC Scientists Reveal Natural Process that Blocks Viruses from Entering the Body
    The human body has the ability to ward off viruses by activating a naturally occurring protein at the cellular level, setting off a chain reaction that disrupts the levels of cholesterol required in cell membranes to enable viruses to enter cells. The findings, discovered ...More
    April 17, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Research Findings to Help in Design of Drugs Against Virus Causing Childhood Illnesses
    New research findings may help scientists design drugs to treat a viral infection that causes potentially fatal brain swelling and paralysis in children. The virus, called enterovirus 71, causes hand, foot and mouth disease and is common throughout the world. Although that ...More
    March 21, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Viruses Have More Survival Tricks Than Previously Thought
    Among eukaryotes with modified nuclear genetic codes, viruses are unknown. Until now it had been believed that the modifications to the genetic code effectively prevented new viral infections. However, researchers have now reported the first example of a virus that can be ...More
    March 5, 2013
    Posted in News
  • 'Defective' Virus Plays Major Role in Spread of Disease, UCLA Scientists Report
    Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease, new research by UCLA life scientists indicates. Defective viruses have genetic mutations or ...More
    March 1, 2013
    Posted in News
  • New Study Shows Viruses Can Have Immune Systems
    A study published today in the journal Nature reports that a viral predator of the cholera bacteria has stolen the functional immune system of bacteria and is using it against its bacterial host. The study provides the first evidence that this type of virus, the ...More
    February 27, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Newly Identified Natural Protein Blocks HIV, Other Deadly Viruses
    A team of UCLA-led researchers has identified a protein with broad virus-fighting properties that potentially could be used as a weapon against deadly human pathogenic viruses such as HIV, Ebola, Rift Valley Fever, Nipah and others designated "priority pathogens" for ...More
    February 11, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Show How Cells' DNA Repair Machinery Can Destroy Viruses
    A team of researchers based at Johns Hopkins has decoded a system that makes certain types of immune cells impervious to HIV infection. The system's two vital components are high levels of a molecule that becomes embedded in viral DNA like a code written in invisible ink, ...More
    January 22, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Virus Caught in the Act of Infecting a Cell
    The detailed changes in the structure of a virus as it infects an E. coli bacterium have been observed for the first time, report researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) Medical School this ...More
    January 11, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Find Age Not a Factor in Immunity to Viruses
    Our immune system does not shut down with age, according to a new study led by McMaster University researchers. A study published in PLOS Pathogens today shows a specialized class of immune cells, known as T cells, can respond to viral infections in an older person with the ...More
    December 14, 2012
    Posted in News
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