Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.

To understand how these wintertime nuisances unfold, why they can be so variable and how to make them less miserable, researchers at Yale School of Medicine cultivated miniature models of nasal ...

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...

One of the big debates in long COVID research is whether the virus can persist in the body, or whether it leaves the immune ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses.

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness. Influenza has to latch onto a receptor on the surface of a human cell so it can ...

Learn how a newly discovered virus disrupts its host’s nucleus in ways that echo how complex cells may have formed billions ...

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

“Our study shows how the most important environmental and genetic risk factors can contribute to MS and trigger an autoimmune ...

A virus cell on the nano spiked silicon surface, magnified 65,000 times. After 1 hour it has already begun to leak material. Researchers at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) ...

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis arise when the immune system turns against the body itself. Yet for most of ...

An innovative method known as ONCOTECH has been developed by researchers to physically attach oncolytic adenoviruses to T-cell surfaces through the interaction of antigens and receptors. To accomplish ...