Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have uncovered the structure and function of the first FDA-approved treatment for Zaire ebolavirus (Ebola virus).

The measles virus is an enveloped virus bearing a lipid bilayer. The bilayer holds the receptor binding hemagglutinin (H) protein and the fusion (F) protein. For infection to happen, the H protein ...

Scientists share detailed, complete images of a viral structure called the Ebola virus nucleocapsid. This breakthrough may accelerate the development of antivirals that target this viral structure ...

Cryo-electron microscopy studies of Nipah virus and Hendra virus may provide blueprints for vaccine design and antibody treatments.

The mimivirus is the largest virus known to scientists. In this week's issue of PLoS Biology, an international team of researchers have determined key structural features of the mimivirus ...

One of the immune system’s healthy functions is to attack viruses, and PNMA2’s virus-like structure makes it particularly prone to being targeted as well, the researchers found. In fact, in ...

Determining the structure of a virus is an important step in understanding and treating viral disease. For decades, structural biologists have been using cryo-electron microscopy to create ...

Virus Structure/Function: The structure of a virus (or any molecule) and the nature of its environment dictate the way the molecule functions. Knowledge of structure is therefore essential to ...

UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how ...

Called gain of function research, some are speculating that it could have been responsible for the COVID-19 virus and the pandemic it created.