The measles virus is an enveloped virus bearing a lipid bilayer. The bilayer holds the receptor binding hemagglutinin (H) protein and the fusion (F) protein. For infection to happen, the H protein ...

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have uncovered the structure and function of the first FDA-approved treatment for Zaire ebolavirus (Ebola virus).

The mimivirus is the largest virus known to scientists. In this week's issue of PLoS Biology, an international team of researchers have determined key structural features of the mimivirus ...

UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how ...

Determining the structure of a virus is an important step in understanding and treating viral disease. For decades, structural biologists have been using cryo-electron microscopy to create ...

Hadden-Perilla, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is a structural biologist who uses supercomputers to create models and simulations to study how the structure of a virus controls how ...

Remember ebola? Zooming in on the structure of the still lethal virus Date: March 30, 2025 Source: Kyoto University Summary: Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak ...

One of the immune system's healthy functions is to attack viruses, and PNMA2's virus-like structure makes it particularly prone to being targeted as well, the researchers found.

A team led by Purdue University researchers is the first to determine the structure of the Zika virus, revealing insights critical to the development of effective antiviral treatments and vaccines.

One of the immune system’s healthy functions is to attack viruses, and PNMA2’s virus-like structure makes it particularly prone to being targeted as well, the researchers found. In fact, in ...