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

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 ...

Once SARS-CoV-2 infiltrates the host cell, it empties its genetic material and begins to replicate. Fairweather said the real problem is that once inside the host cells, the virus targets ...

Yet until recently, scientists didn’t fully understand why bats are so good at harboring pathogens that don’t seem to harm ...

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex (the ...

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 ...

Bringing all the components to make viruses in one place makes replication more efficient and also helps hide the virus from the immune system. "Our current model is that ANKLE2 is really ...