Prof. Mandel-Gutfreund and Dr. Argoetti speculate this mechanism evolved during human evolution in response to viruses that learned to manipulate infected cells to prevent immune responses.

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, ...

The study, published today in the journal Cell Host ... by Ebola virus, occurred in three West African countries from 2014 to 2016. It killed more than 11,000 people and infected more than ...

The COMBINE approach: Identification, characterization & inhibition of the virus-cell binding step Any viral infection begins ... as a highly-pathogenic BSL-4 model virus, this novel approach ...

In Zika-infected cells, ANKLE2 clusters in pockets ... The authors suggested that their study “… supports a model in which ANKLE2 promotes virus-mediated ER remodeling to accelerate and ...

For the first time, researchers have observed how HIV penetrates the nuclear pores to the genome of human immune cells Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On ...

In Zika-infected cells, ANKLE2 clusters in pockets ... more efficient and also helps hide the virus from the immune system. "Our current model is that ANKLE2 is really important, but not essential ...