WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Opening doors to the possibility of developing new vaccines and antiviral agents to fight a host of insect-borne diseases, scientists have, for the first time, determined the ...

Opening doors to the possibility of developing new vaccines and antiviral agents to fight a host of insect-borne diseases, scientists have, for the first time, determined the structure of a family of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Opening doors to the possibility of developing new vaccines and antiviral agents to fight a host of insect-borne diseases, scientists have, for the first time, determined the ...

Better designed vaccines for insect-spread viruses like dengue and Zika are likely after researchers discovered models of immature flavivirus particles were originally misinterpreted. Researchers from ...

In a recent study, Australian scientists used an original approach to resolve the 3D structure of flaviviruses with an unprecedented level of detail, identifying small molecules known as 'pocket ...

Structure of mature flaviviruses. Surface view of mature ZIKV showing the E proteins arranged in a herringbone pattern. The three E protomers within one icosahedral asymmetric unit are shown in blue, ...

Enveloped animal viruses deliver their genetic contents into host cells by a fusion reaction between the virus membrane, which is derived from the host-cell membrane during virus budding, and the host ...

The flaviviruses are mosquito-borne viruses that are associated with significant worldwide morbidity and mortality. The dengue viruses (DENV) are members of this group associated with dengue fever, ...

In the summer of 1878, the city of Memphis, Tennessee—home to 45,000 to 50,000 people—suddenly became a ghost town. An epidemic was sweeping through the city, causing people’s temperatures to spike, ...

Meerut girl Devika Sirohi, a research scholar at Purdue University, US, is proud to be part of a team led by Purdue University researchers which is the first to determine the structure of the virus ...