One of the largest studies ever conducted on the link between the shingles vaccine and brain health offers insight into how ...

While largely unnoticed, phages do not harm humans. On the contrary, these viruses are gaining increasing popularity as biomedicines to eradicate pathogenic bacteria, especially those associated with ...

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

Viruses are entities that have to infect other cells in order to replicate. They may have genomes that are made of DNA or RNA. We are still discovering new types of RNA viruses, as shown in two new ...

Brendan Straut '24 and Dr. Anna Kloc, his thesis adviser, in the lab. Throughout his time as a Charger, Brendan Straut '24 has had exciting experiences across campus. He's made connections and ...

If we want to prevent viral infections or develop drugs that can effectively treat them, those infections have to be investigated and understood. As such, scientists have long been researching viruses ...

Have you seen the Photo of the Day and Shout-outs in Patch AM? Show off your photography and love of Santa Cruz by sharing ...

Herpes simplex viruses (HSV) are ubiquitous, double‐stranded DNA viruses that establish lifelong infections in human hosts. Central to their cycle is the process of membrane fusion, which permits ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The term “gain of function” is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts ...

It's a jungle out there on the Internet. With countless viruses, applets, and attachments on the loose, you might say that the systems designed to protect our computers are facing the kind of ...

Researchers describe the full molecular structure of the phage DEV. DEV infects and lyses Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, an opportunistic pathogen in cystic fibrosis and other diseases. DEV is part ...