We’ll understand if you’re puzzled by the eerie image below. It’s a tiny piece of the Lassa virus, which can double a person over in pain, make their head swell and, in some cases, quickly result in ...

The film discusses the nature of viruses, including their structure, reproduction, and the diseases they cause. It explains how viruses are incredibly small and require a host cell to survive and ...

The flu illness is triggered by influenza viruses, which enter the body through droplets and then infect cells. Researchers ...

Winter has returned, so is the flu season accompanied by flu, fever, aching limbs and runny nose,that has forced scientists ...

The phenomenal new electron microscope (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942) has been taking a good long look at hitherto invisible objects. In the last two issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association, ...

A new, nano-scale look at how the SARS-CoV-2 virus replicates in cells may offer greater precision in drug development, a Stanford University team reports in Nature Communications. Using advanced ...

Scientists are reporting an advance in smartphone-based imaging that could help physicians in far-flung and resource-limited locations monitor how well treatments for infections are working by ...

a Sketch of the PRISM system, where an all-dielectric photonic crystal (PC) is used as the sample substrate and illuminated by a collimated 633u2009nm HeNe laser beam. Inset: normal-incident ...

Image by the US National Institutes of Health, CC 3.0 Image by the US National Institutes of Health, CC 3.0 A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside ...

Human DNA is not always making us function in ways we understand. Some of our genome is just there, and we’re not sure what it does. In fact, 8% of our DNA are viruses our ancestors caught one day and ...