We may owe our survival and complexity to a stowaway virus that springs to life in the very first cells of human embryos. Not only does the virus seem to protect embryos from other viruses,... Read more
Global-health researchers look to supplement traditional tactics to reduce the health and economic impacts of food-borne pathogens. Food-borne viruses, bacteria and protozoa caused some 582... Read more
Emerging and generalization of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has directed attention to the retroviruses. Retroviruses are mobile genetic elements that enter into other cells in... Read more
Sierra Leone’s six million people are being confined to their homes for three days as the West African nation resorts again to a sweeping shutdown in a final push to stamp out Ebola. T... Read more
Although arthropods are important viral vectors, the biodiversity of arthropod viruses, as well as the role that arthropods have played in viral origins and evolution, is unclear. Through RN... Read more
Viruses are the most numerous, and arguably the most diverse, branch of life (Koonin and Dolja, 2013). They have been described as the ‘dark matter’ of biology because they can be very hard... Read more
Liberia has released its last Ebola patient and begun its countdown to being declared Ebola free. “I am one of the happiest human beings today on earth because it was not easy going th... Read more
Abstract Mitochondria are multifunctional organelles with diverse roles including energy production and distribution, apoptosis, eliciting host immune response, and causing diseases and agin... Read more
The entry of enveloped viruses into cells begins when the membrane that surrounds these virus particles fuse with a cell membrane. The process of virus-cell fusion must be tightly reg... Read more
Until a few years ago the polyomavirus family (Polyomaviridae) included a dozen viruses identified in avian and mammalian hosts. Two of these, the JC and BK-polyomaviruses isolated a... Read more
