New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

During the first weeks of pregnancy, the developing placenta in a mother's womb undergoes a dramatic change. Individual cells ...

Researchers discovered how rabies virus exerts massive control over host cells with very few genes. A key viral protein ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilise it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...

When pathogens enter our cells as part of an infection, our body will trigger a programmed cell death known as "pyroptosis" ...

The average human cell contains roughly 10,000 different proteins. Existing as several to millions of copies in each cell, proteins mediate all manner of tasks, including chemical transformations, ...