Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each year. To replicate and spread the infection, the virus must smuggle its genetic material into the ...

Viruses have a very limited set of genes and therefore must use the cellular machineries of their hosts for most parts of their growth. A new study has discovered a specific host protein that many ...

Model systems based on virus capsids have shown how large biomolecules are able to penetrate a cell nucleus / The larger the molecule, the more nuclear localization signals are needed A new study in ...

HIV is a lentivirus, a type of retrovirus, or RNA-based virus. When the virus enters cells, its single-stranded RNA genome is reverse-transcribed into double stranded DNA by reverse transcriptase.

Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each year. To replicate and spread the infection, the virus must smuggle its genetic material into the ...

Viruses are tiny packets of destruction and there are more of them than any other biological entity on the planet. Luckily, only a few hundred are known to make people sick, and figuring out what ...

The intracellular transport of therapeutic gene carriers is poorly understood, limiting the rational design of efficient new vectors. We used live-cell real-time multiple particle tracking to quantify ...

More than half of U.S. adults are carriers of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), a virus that hibernates in the peripheral nervous system and can’t be eradicated. A Northwestern University study has ...