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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Biologists at Purdue University have determined the combined structure of a common-cold virus attached to a molecule that enables the virus to infect its host, information that ...

Turn on the news as of late and there will undoubtedly be an article here or there about the Zika Virus. The Zika virus is a type of flavivirus (from the latin ‘flavus’ for yellow, as it was ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers from Purdue University and the National Institutes of Health have discovered the structure of the Zika virus. Image: Purdue University/Kuhn and Rossman ...

Flaviviruses, such as Dengue and Zika, were assumed to be symmetrical icosahedrons (shapes with 20 identical faces) based on data from microscopes. But these icosahedral viruses might not be perfectly ...

A team of researchers has solved the structure of a molecule that controls the ability of viruses of the paramyxovirus family, including the viruses that cause measles, mumps, and many human ...

Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology have detailed the structure of the Ebola virus nucleocapsid using cryo-electron tomography. This discovery could guide the development of universal ...

Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread.

Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus harbored by fruit bats. It can be transmitted to pigs and humans, infect people through contaminated food, and can travel directly from person to person via droplets.

Infection: Illustration of a phage virus injecting its DNA into a cell. (Courtesy: Alex Evilevitch and Ting Liu) A series of neutron scattering measurements has uncovered the structure of viral DNA in ...

Determining the structure of a virus is an important step in understanding and treating viral disease. For decades, structural biologists have been using cryo-electron microscopy to create ...