These have become household terms since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, but the microscopic size of the virus means that most people are unfamiliar with what the infection process actually ...

Perhaps all viruses arose via a mechanism yet to be uncovered. Today's basic research in fields like microbiology, genomics, and structural biology may provide us with answers to this basic question.

As obligatory intracellular parasites, viruses rely on host-cell functions for most aspects of their replication cycle. This is born out during entry, when most viruses that infect vertebrate and ...

Advances in molecular biology have enabled leaps forward in the determination of virus phylogenetic history. This detailed 1995 book results from the invitation to foremost experts to give essays on ...

By following the infection path of selected viruses, from their arrival to the cell surface and intracellular trafficking ... this journey takes us through virtually all aspects of cell biology and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us all the importance of educating the public about viral infections. Besides educating the general public, we need to equip the next generation of scientists by ...

Scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences found forty new freshwater viruses infecting aquatic ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. This definitive and comprehensive account of the human herpes viruses provides an ...

The central dogma of biology defines the flow of genetic information: It describes how proteins are made from mRNA templates, ...

Here, we review the most recent findings on the Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus molecular biology and pathogenesis, including aspects of virus–host cell interactions. To date ...