Viruses are tiny agents that can infect a variety of living organisms, including bacteria, plants, and animals. Like other viruses, the dengue virus is a microscopic structure that can only replicate ...

Biological scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

Dengue virus needs the proteins encoded in its single-stranded RNA genome to propagate, but the virus can't produce them on its own. The virus must use the host cell's protein production machinery, so ...

New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has uncovered surprising strategies for how dengue and hundreds of other viruses replicate in their hosts, with the potential to aid in ...

The envelope (E) proteins of Zika virus (ZIKV) and dengue virus (DENV) present a high degree of homology, which can lead to cross-reactive antibodies that exacerbate disease through antibody-dependent ...

Viral DNA in human genomes, embedded there from ancient infections, serve as antivirals that protect human cells against certain present-day viruses, according to new research. Viral DNA in human ...

Viruses are prone to mutations that make them resistant to existing drugs. Drugs that directly target a virus typically work as inhibitors, binding to a viral protein to hinder its function. So if ...

Viral DNA in human genomes, embedded there from ancient infections, serve as antivirals that protect human cells against certain present-day viruses, according to new research. The paper, "Evolution ...