SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, affects more than just the lungs and airways. Here's how this virus enters cells and the symptoms that can arise from infecting different parts of the body.

Viruses infect cells with a goal of taking control of their protein-building machinery to churn out new viral copies. Cells ...

Zika virus hijacks a key protein implicated in brain development for its own replication. Researchers led by Associate Professor Priya Shah at the University of California, Davis (CA, USA), have ...

Feb 21 (Reuters) - A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it ...

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...