Yibin Zhu’s work highlights how microbiota from both the hosts and vectors can either promote or suppress virus transmission.

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Angela Belcher, the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and a professor of materials science at MIT, ...

Although viruses are known to undergo continual mutation, not all genetic alterations have a significant effect. Sometimes, a ...

What does a hantavirus do inside its rodent hosts? How do these viruses move through animal populations? And how is it that ...

Most people infected with West Nile virus do not develop symptoms. But about 1 in 5 people who get infected develop a fever and other symptoms such as headache, body aches, joint ...

New research indicates the Oropouche virus has spread far more widely than reported, exposing major gaps in disease ...

Sialic acid is a natural sugar building block found on the surfaces of our cells. It acts as a protective and recognition molecule and plays a central role in the development of the nervous system.

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

When viruses travel through the air in tiny droplets, they can quickly start to dry out. Yet many viruses remain infectious ...