Viruses depend on host cells for replication, but how does a virus induce its host to transcribe its own genetic information alongside that of the virus, thus producing daughter viruses? For ...

Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

In fact, virus is nothing but small protein capsules enclosing the genetic material. The virus cannot replicate without a host cell, which it hijacks for its survival.

The small coding capacity of the influenza A virus demands that the virus use the host cellular machinery for many aspects of its life cycle. An integrated systems approach, based on genome-wide ...

Trump’s Lies Are a Virus, and News Organizations Are the Host Journalists have become complicit in spreading the president’s falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Here’s how they can do better.

Viruses that infected our ancestors provided the genetic foundations for many of the traits that define us.

More than a quadrillion quadrillion individual viruses exist on Earth, but most are not poised to hop into humans. Can we find the ones that are?

Soap can dissolve the fatty envelope on the outer part of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, leading to the destruction of the whole virus particle.