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 only natural host of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is humans. Model organisms for laboratory studies, especially mice, cannot be infected, which makes the search for a vaccine against HCV extremely ...

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 ...

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