Researchers at LMU in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg have discovered how ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the ...

University of Pittsburgh researchers have shown for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma, initiates DNA replication in ...

As a grad student in cell biology, Shaeri Mukherjee was always on the lookout for new ways to fiddle with cells’ internal structures. It was the early 2000s, and Mukherjee was working in Dennis ...

SARS-CoV-2 is a highly infectious virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have now had several years to study this virus, and several new reports have outlined the many ways that the ...

Parasitic infections pose challenges to creating effective therapies because these microorganisms are eukaryotic, like the humans and animals that they infect. Additionally, species like Toxoplasma ...

Whenever cells are used to produce biotherapeutics such as antibodies, process impurities known as host cell proteins (HCPs) find their way into downstream product flows. Some HCPs are benign. Others ...

A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of Regensburg has unveiled insights into how HIV-1, the virus responsible for ...

Viruses and their hosts—whether bacteria, animals, or humans—are locked in a constant evolutionary arms race. Cells evolve ...

As a hematologist and physician-scientist who specializes in bone marrow transplantation, Dr. Albert Yeh describes the “holy grail” of transplantation biology that has yet to be answered: “how do you ...