Symptoms of the Zika virus can be masked by simultaneous infection with other mosquito-borne viruses like dengue fever and chikungunya. To solve this issue, researchers have developed a comprehensive ...

Modern antivirus tools have made PC infections rare, but they can still occur. Most viruses are designed to go unnoticed, quietly working in the background. Some of the quickest and easiest ways to ...

It's important to know the signs of a virus, so that you can act quickly to get rid of any malware and stay safe in future. A virus is a type of malicious software, or malware, that can replicate ...

Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed a method to understand how HIV and other viruses first begin to infect our cells, and that could help us prevent COVID-19 and ...

Scientists recently published findings indicating that Ebola virus creates and uses intercellular tunnels to move from cell to cell and evade treatments. Understanding how viruses travel once inside ...

Viruses possess a formidable ability to enter our cells to multiply there, thus triggering diseases. However, a team from ...

A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionise the response to future pandemics. Dr Samuel Jones from Birmingham’s School of Chemistry led ...

It's an evolutionary battle, an endless competition for survival, that has spanned millions of years. Within this epic tale for the ages, the skillful characters are mighty, but very, very ...

For the first time, researchers have observed live and in high resolution how influenza (“flu”) viruses infect living cells. This was possible thanks to a new microscopy technique, developed at ETH ...