His research involves studying the structure of viruses and how they interface with the cells of their hosts’ bodies — hence the mapping of the Zika antibodies. That structural understanding is key to ...

They say that change takes time. Well, that's not the case for RNA. The small biological molecule acts like a switchboard ...

Influenza A virus particle can strategically adapt their shape, becoming either spheres or filaments, to favor their ability ...

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favor their ...

The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a step closer to developing much-needed medicines.Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it ...

This work is published in Cell in the paper ... Until now, the structure and function of the Nipah virus polymerase remained poorly understood. Unraveling this piece of the viral apparatus ...

Another important discovery was an intricate RNA structure near the critical ... the host defense mechanisms. Thus, the virus can manipulate the host cell machinery in ways that remain robust ...

and infect cells. The work provides a detailed three-dimensional picture of the virus's polymerase and its key features. Understanding the structure and behavior of this critical piece of the ...

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape -- to become either spheres or larger filaments -- to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according ...