According to a recent study, scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have demonstrated how the Zika virus ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers from Purdue University and the National Institutes of Health have discovered the structure of the Zika virus. Image: Purdue University/Kuhn and Rossman ...

Laboratory studies have further shown that Zika virus can infect and kill human fetal brain cells growing in cell culture and also in mice. By April 2016, the body of accumulated evidence was strong ...

Zika virus hijacks a ... and the immune system can keep virus replication in check,” first author Adam Fishburn reported. Further investigations demonstrated that ANKLE2 plays a role in ZIKV infection ...

It’s the same when doctors, researchers and epidemiologists fight any virus: The physical structure of its molecules ... and how they interface with the cells of their hosts’ bodies — hence the ...

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the disease further, new research shows.

“We showed that ANKLE2 is really important for accelerating Zika virus replication in human cells, in a broad range of human cells, so liver neurons and even placental cells, which are all ...

and mosquito cells, have shown how Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2, which is important for brain development, to assist its own replication. The new work found that related viruses ...

Antibodies created during a viral infection or in response to a vaccine help to prevent reinfection with that specific virus but can ... who works on Zika and dengue vaccination strategies and has ...

Select any virus below to explore its structure and biology ... Glycoproteins typically bind to receptors on the membrane of a host cell. Viruses that do not bud from the host cell membrane ...

Shah and her research team previously found that a Zika virus protein called NS4A interacts with ANKLE2 in host cells. Working in Drosophila fruit flies, they showed that this could lead to ...