Most people infected by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be cured with antiviral therapy, but access to the treatment remains limited. Even diagnosis of hepatitis C, a disease that causes chronic ...

HIV-1 can be neutralized by antibodies which bind to vulnerable structures on the virus surface. One such vulnerable site is ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

After viruses infected our evolutionary ancestors, bits of viral DNA lodged themselves into their genomes — and we still carry around genetic remnants of those viruses now. Known as endogenous ...

Jamil Saad, Ph.D. Jamil Saad, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Microbiology, is the latest winner of the Heersink School of Medicine’s Featured Discovery. This initiative celebrates important ...