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Marburg virus enters humans from bats to cause viral hemorrhagic fever, but how it alters immune cells is unclear.

A tickborne virus uses cholesterol receptors to worm its way into the cell.

Scientists turned a deadly virus into a crucial tool for understanding the wiring of the brain.

Gut viruses influence behavioral responses in mice and may be important players in the gut-brain axis.

Researchers access a wide range of tools and reagents to keep pace with seasonal influenza.

Influenza infection activates a pathway that leads to a detrimental drop in progesterone during pregnancy in mice.

Bats stay healthy while hosting some of the world’s deadliest viruses. Scientists are just beginning to understand how.

Learn how the latest research into viral and bacterial pathogens advances the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. 

Natalie Knox and the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory are helping establish a national qPCR-driven wastewater surveillance network for SARS-CoV-2 and other diseases.

Scientists prepare for the future by filling in the research gaps between zoonotic viral reservoirs, emerging viruses, and human immune defenses.

In both the laboratory and clinic, scientists harness viral genetic transfer capabilities to develop gene therapies that modulate cellular function.

By engineering structures out of DNA, scientists could potentially prevent larger viruses, like coronaviruses and influenza viruses, from interacting with cells.

The University of Miami researcher studies how a mysterious group of supersized viruses infects and influences the evolution of their hosts.

The “tripledemic” shines a spotlight on viral interference, in which one infection can block another.

Redondoviruses, which have been associated with cases of periodontitis and other diseases, turn out to live inside the amoeba Entamoeba gingivalis.

Bats are known for staying healthy even while harboring viral infections. Now, research sheds light on how their unusual immune system evolved.

In flies and mice, a viral protein increases the rate of energy use by heart cells. But it’s not yet clear if the finding applies to humans.

A high-fat diet induced changes to the animals’ vaginal microbiomes that boosted survival after exposure to the virus.

Microbes communicate with quorum sensing to coordinate their behavior in response to how many neighbors they have.