The recent live bird market cases represent the second and third known cases of avian influenza in Philadelphia. In January, ...

Testing wastewater for diseases and viral activity gained prominence during the pandemic, but scientists are concerned that ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 ... making it an ideal target. Using cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray ...

A sixth Michigan child has died from the flu. In February, the first flu-associated pediatric death in Michigan was reported ...

What causes long Covid? Scientists don't fully understand why some develop disabling chronic complications after recovering ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has published the following letter addressing the growing zoonotic threat posed by the ongoing H5N1 influenza virus outbreak. The letter is ...

But how GGCX facilitates this reaction has been unclear. To answer this question, Dr. Qi and his colleagues used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). By freezing molecules at temperatures around ...

Among these pathogens, Largemouth bass virus (LMBV), a nucleoplasmic large DNA virus ... assay (Iwanowicz et al., 2013), electron microscopy observation and analysis (Qi et al., 2016), loop-mediated ...

Influenza A virus (IAV) Matrix 2 protein (M2) is an ion channel, required for efficient viral entry and egress. M2 interacts with the small ubiquitin-like LC3 protein through a cytoplasmic C-terminal ...

FILE -This colorized electron microscope image released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024, shows avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (yellow), grown ...

Infection can occur if the virus enters the eyes, nose, or mouth, particularly if hands are not washed thoroughly after contact. Sick animals should be isolated to prevent the spread of the virus ...