Study reveals how viruses invade cells by exploiting host proteins, with findings that may help in pre-pandemic preparedness.

A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers studying a recently emerged strain of bacteria ...

Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable ...

Researchers have developed a continuously replicating model of human lip cells from donated tissue, overcoming challenges in ...

Stem cells provide new insights into cardiovascular disease, helping researchers understand its causes and identify potential ...

The skin on our lips is distinctly different and more complex than other skin on our bodies, and primary lip cells are hard to acquire, which holds back basic research that could help improve ...

Experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM have harnessed their know-how in ...

The innate immune system is the body's first line of defense against foreign ... on in bat fibroblasts—unlike in human cells—even before virus infection occurs. These findings suggest that ...

A bird flu virus has jumped one species closer to a human outbreak. The H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in Oregon, the ...

When thinking about the immune system, most people think about B and T cells and how they can be trained to recognize pathogens, preventing re-infections.

Researchers at Houston Methodist studied the emerging strain Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis (SDSE) and its ...