Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus harbored by fruit bats. It can be transmitted to pigs and humans, infect people through contaminated food, and can travel directly from person to person via droplets.

Researchers have profiled the molecular structure and features of a key part of the deadly Nipah virus. Experiments in cells showe how changes in the viral polymerase -- a protein involved in viral ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

AlphaFold Database adds AI-Predicted Structures from 2,800+ Viruses, Helping Researchers Study Outbreaks and Prepare for ...

An outbreak of infections with the mpox virus—formerly known as monkeypox—in Europe in 2022 led to a rise in interest in poxviruses. An international research team has now investigated the structure ...

They've revealed structural differences between the vaccine strain (YFV-17D) and the virulent, disease-causing strains of the virus. Dr. Summa Bibby from UQ's School of Chemistry and Molecular ...

Weak molecular connections allow protein building blocks to separate, try again, and eventually lock into the stable ...

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched Viro3D—the most comprehensive database of human and animal virus protein structure ...

This article summarizes the key points of the article "Decoding Norovirus RNA Structure: A New Strategy for Targeted ...

Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread. By tracing the shared architecture between long-extinct retroviruses and ...