A new study shows the intricacies of the cold virus and how it interacts with nasal airway cells, revealing why some people ...

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

Learn how a newly discovered virus disrupts its host’s nucleus in ways that echo how complex cells may have formed billions ...

A model showing proteins called death fold domains (green) telling a caspase enzyme (blue) to kill the cell after it has been compromised by pathogens. The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness. Influenza has to latch onto a receptor on the surface of a human cell so it can ...

“Our study shows how the most important environmental and genetic risk factors can contribute to MS and trigger an autoimmune ...

Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic invaders as they latch on, glide across the surface and slip inside. Instead of a ...

One of the big debates in long COVID research is whether the virus can persist in the body, or whether it leaves the immune ...