Scientists at the University of Maryland are researching the science behind avian influenza, or bird flu. Dr. Andrew Broadbent, a researcher and professor at the University of Maryland, says the best ...

Researchers have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The ...

Gilead Sciences announced a significant milestone: the U.S. FDA accepted their New Drug Applications (NDAs) for lenacapavir ...

A new combination of microscopy methods has revealed exquisite detail of the virus assembly process used by herpes simplex virus during replication.

Do viruses conform to these criteria? Yes and no. We probably all realize that viruses reproduce in some way. We can become infected with a small number of virus particles — by inhaling ...

But viruses certainly reproduce, infecting people and causing illnesses. It’s how they reproduce that’s unusual. Viruses lack essential machinery needed to reproduce by themselves. In fact ...

However, they were uncertain about how HIV controls the remodeling of the cell membrane as it exits the cells and what role the lipid envelope plays in HIV replication. “Viruses in general, because ...

Researchers discovered that Zika virus spreads through the placenta by creating tunneling nanotubes. This strategy helps ...