Agent VP882, Licence to Kill
Replicate and destroy or hold fire?Viruses hijack host cells, which they force to produce thousands of identical copies of the original virus. Often, this forced-labor destroys the host cell, which is broken open (lysed), freeing the viral progeny to find and...
A(nother) systems-level approach against viruses
Dengue and Zika, why it’s good to compareDengue and Zika viruses have much in common. Both are vector-borne (mosquitoes) flaviviruses, they have similar life cycles, and we lack an effective vaccine against either. Nevertheless, dengue and Zika infections cause...
Virus diagnostics: the sandwich fingerprint
The importance of diagnostic for deadly infectious diseases, particularly in resource-deprived settings, cannot be understated. Diagnostic is most important to determine the type and level of medical intervention required, particularly for diseases where onset...
Influenza: does it matter how it looks?
Influenza: does it matter how it looks? When we think of a virus like influenza, what we picture in our mind is the classical text book representation of a rounded object uniformly covered by the surface antigens HA and NA. However, electron microscopy studies have...Page 17 of 29