It’s the same when doctors, researchers and epidemiologists fight any virus: The physical structure of its molecules dictate how a virus infects people and moves through their bodies as well as how to ...

Our work aims to understand the structure, assembly and function of various biological ... More specifically we seek to know how different viruses assemble, uncoat, and interact with host cells to ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Researchers have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a ...

Discover how a structural breakthrough in the chikungunya virus is opening new avenues for antiviral drug development and ...

A major challenge lies in the virus's structure and regulatory mechanisms ... with two VP24 molecules binding to two NP molecules in different arrangements. Subsequent analysis revealed the ...