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Coronavirus replication relies on newly identified host enzyme, study finds

A research team at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, has identified a previously unknown cellular mechanism crucial to the replication of coronaviruses: c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) is activated ...
EurekAlert!

Pinning down the process of West Nile virus transmission

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Mosquitoes have been transmitting the West Nile virus to humans in the United States for over 25 years, but we still don’t know precisely how the virus cycles through these pests and ...
The Conversation

How do viruses get into cells? Their infection tactics determine whether they can jump species or set off a pandemic

Peter Kasson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Commonwealth Health Research Board, and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He is ...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

What criteria or characteristics would you use to group living things versus nonliving things? Scientists have grappled with this question for years, and the debate is still ongoing in the scientific ...