New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

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Since the emergence of the Zika virus epidemic in 2014 and the associated novel sequalae that emerged, much has been learned about the effects of antenatal exposure to Zika virus. Zika virus in ...

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Gilead in the 2000s took the research out of the lab by developing lenacapavir, which binds to key HIV proteins and interferes with several steps in the virus’s life cycle.

Introduction As obligate intracellular pathogens, viruses must interact with and overcome cellular membranes as a key step of their life cycle. Sphingolipids (Figure 1) are a major structural ...

Viruses are remarkably diverse pathogens that can infect all life forms. Despite their differences in shape and size, they share a common goal: to hijack a host cell’s machinery and use it to ...

The activation of JNK1 occurs during the late stage of the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle, which in turn activates the E3 ligase activity of ITCH (pink arrows). ITCH promotes ubiquitination of the E and M ...

“The most potent HIV medications currently are those that stop the virus life cycle, but they still have some long-term side-effects, although much less than first-generation HIV medications.