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While Zika has been reported in more than 90 countries, surprisingly little is known about what exactly drives Zika ...

"When viruses infect cells, they usually create specialized compartments—replication factories—where they form new viruses that infect more cells causing the disease," said first author Dr ...

Cidara Therapeutics is leveraging its Cloudbreak platform to develop CD388 for universal influenza prophylaxis. See why I ...

“Identifying how the polymerase is regulated to switch on and switch off the different enzymatic activities that are required for viral replication would be game-changing, and this study represents a ...

Shah is senior author of the team’s published paper in mBio, titled “Microcephaly protein ANKLE2 promotes Zika virus replication.” In the paper, the team concluded that in combination with ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2 to support its own reproduction. ANKLE2 is involved in brain development in the fetus and because Zika can cross the placenta and ...