WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Opening doors to the possibility of developing new vaccines and antiviral agents to fight a host of insect-borne diseases, scientists have, for the first time, determined the ...

Scientists mapped the Bas63 bacteriophage in unprecedented detail, uncovering how its tail machinery infects bacteria. The ...

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks. Tick season is starting earlier and lasting longer, and ticks are popping up ...

Cryo-electron microscopy has given scientists the first glimpse at how the measles virus wraps up its genome in its protective protein container. The 4.3-Å structure provides a platform for ...

University of Queensland researchers have captured the first high-resolution images of the yellow fever virus (YFV), a ...

New research has revealed that the structure of a bacteriophage, a virus infecting bacteria, resembles that of certain dangerous viruses that infect people. Studying this bacteriophage reveals various ...

The blue tongue virus core (BTVC) particle is the biggest molecular structure determined to date by X-ray crystallography. The atomic model shows that the inner core particle of 120 VP3 subunits ...

IN view of our recent finding 1 that multiplication of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMC) can be inhibited by non-cytotoxic concentrations of p-nitrobenzylphosphonic acid, it appeared worthwhile to ...