Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus harbored by fruit bats. It can be transmitted to pigs and humans, infect people through contaminated food, and can travel directly from person to person via droplets.

The structural data also illuminated the thicket of sugar-related "glycan" molecules atop E1E2. Viruses often use glycans to shield themselves from the immune system of an infected host, but in this ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Opening doors to the possibility of developing new vaccines and antiviral agents to fight a host of insect-borne diseases, scientists have, for the first time, determined the ...

Scientists been able to produce the first crystal structure of a virus particle caught in the midst of assembling its impenetrable outer protein coat. A research team at the Scripps Research Institute ...

A virus may be microscopic, but it contains thousands of nucleic acid bases strategically packaged into a protein shell. Knowing how the virus organizes these vast information stores in a compact ...