High-throughput RNAi screens in human cells suggest new approaches to curb influenza virus infection. Brass et al. 1 used fluorescence microscopy to score the abundance of the influenza envelope ...

China-ASEAN Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Mariculture Technology, Guangzhou, China ...

Genetic studies in model organisms, including Drosophila, have a rich history of fundamental insights in neuroscience, including the identification and functional dissection of genes important in ...

In children, exanthems are most often related to infection and, of these, viral infections are the most common. Some exanthems have very specific morphologies that help identify and characterize ...

is a skin condition that can occur when you contract a viral infection. Viral rashes are not the same as rashes due to allergic reactions, such as from a food allergy, pollen, or touching an allergen.

Virus–host interactions are the viral and host processes that occur during viral infection, which enable both partners to respond to each other. To understand why sarbecoviruses display ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a viral infection spread from bird to bird. The most common kind is the H5N1 strain. While swine flu isn't as scary as it seemed a few years ago, it's still ...

Download a PDF of the Plain Language Summary. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections are estimated to cause 3.6 million hospitalizations annually and 97,200 to 124,900 deaths among children ...

V iral infections are contagious illnesses caused by viruses. These infections occur when the virus infects you and attacks ...

Most drugs would not destroy the virus directly but would interfere with it enough to allow the body's immune system to clear the infection. Antiviral drugs generally stop a virus from attaching ...

There has also been links between Alzheimer's disease and other infections that cause a long-term activation of the immune system. The oral herpes virus (herpes simplex virus 1 or HSV1) causes cold ...

Polycomb group (PcG) and trithorax group (TrxG) proteins are evolutionarily conserved regulatory factors that were initially discovered in Drosophila. PcG/TrxG proteins ... and signal transduction.