Research students at McDaniel College are spending part of their summer on a multiyear project that could one day keep ...

How viruses hijack part of your immune system and use it against you. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 11 / 181129142412.htm ...

Artificial cells produce parts of viruses for safe studies. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 07 / 200721102156.htm ...

Adds Divon: "And because the artificial parts - even if they faithfully reproduced parts of the virus - do not include the use of actual viruses, they would be especially safe from beginning to end".

An enzyme intended to prevent autoimmune disease can be hijacked and used by some viruses to avoid immune detection. That discovery from Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators appears in PLOS ...

While the virus database as of 2005 contained about 3,600 viruses, plus around 30,000 virus strains (different variant of the same virus), this barely touches the tip of the iceberg. There are ...

Most of the critical parts of the virus that causes COVID-19 have stayed the same throughout the entire pandemic. The spike protein is a component of the virus that is used to get into human cells ...

This story is a part of Science Friday’s coverage on the novel coronavirus, the agent of the disease COVID-19. Listen to experts discuss the spread, outbreak response, and treatment. Throughout the ...

Research students at McDaniel College are spending part of their summer on a multiyear project that could one day keep viruses like COVID-19 from spreading.