The replication cycle can be highly diverse between different species and categories of viruses. Despite this, there are generally six broad steps required for viral replication to occur successfully.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how a common virus linked to birth defects and chronic illness manipulates ...

Hepatitis D is the most severe of all viral hepatitis infections, leading to quick onset of liver scarring and liver cancer. The pathogen that causes the disease, hepatitis D virus, is a virus ...

Researchers discover how Zika virus and related viruses replicate in human cells, illuminating potential new vaccines.

How does Zika virus replicate and transmit from mother to fetus? Nearly $6 million in new NIH grants will enable Penn State researcher and colleagues to investigate how Zika virus replicates and ...

(+) RNA viruses are skilled masters of manipulating cellular proteins to complete essential steps of virus infection: (1) translation and replication of viral (+)RNA; (2) virus movement to adjacent ...

Different viruses use different tricks for this, but most work like cellular secretion – how cells release materials into their environment – in reverse.

If you need another virus to replicate, how do you guarantee that it makes it into the cell around the same time you do? MiniFlayer addressed this challenge with evolutionary aplomb and horror ...

Some theorize that viruses were created from genetic material that “escaped” from other organisms over time. Next Time: No matter what their exact ancient origins, after billions of years of evolution ...

"First, we discovered that Tulane virus does need intracellular calcium to replicate. Without it, the virus replicates poorly," Strtak said.

A collaboration is on a mission to understand, in visual detail and with mathematical precision, all aspects of viral attack strategies, including how viruses invade host cell protein-making machinery ...