Being sugar-coated doesn’t just help the medicine go down, as the song goes, but it can also help a virus evade the immune ...

The T cells help B cells turn on to produce antibodies that could bind to the actual virus. The helper T cells also tell killer T cells to devise ways to destroy lung cells that are infected.

Later, immune cells use these proteins to produce antibodies that will block the actual virus' spike proteins from binding to people's cells and infecting them. The finding, as outlined by ...

Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed ...

When measuring virus production, monkey kidney cells (specifically CV-1 and LLC-MK2 cells) proved to be the most productive ...

Sugar coatings aren't only for candies; they also help viruses, like the ones that cause COVID-19, hide from their hosts' ...

Viral contamination in cell cultures poses significant challenges, particularly due to the necessity for complex detection ...

once inside our cells, instructs them to make SARS-CoV-2 protein. This stimulates an immune response that ideally would protect recipients from future encounters with the actual virus. Three ...

Zika virus uses stealth. Zika virus slips into dendritic cells and blocks the dendritic cells from alerting nearby T cells to danger. It's the classic horror movie cliche -- the creeper is already in ...

For years, scientists worldwide have been experimenting with messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, unable to secure the funding or ...

For only five percent of those, we have actual medication that you can use to treat ... in theory, cordon the virus off from a potential host cell and prevent infection, though the team didn’t test ...

However, this stalk is coated with chains of sugar molecules called glycans from the host's cells ... stalk region of the virus' spike protein, should the actual virus enter the body.