The lytic and lysogenic cycles are the two main phases of a virus’ infective lifecycle and route to replication. The lytic cycle, or virulent infection, involves a virus taking control of a host cell ...

Bacteriophages are a special type of virus that infect bacteria and have amazing structural and functional diversity. When a bacteriophage infects a bacterium, it can hijack the molecular machinery of ...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) undergoes a productive infection of epithelial cells at mucosal surfaces and spreads to sensory neurons, where it can undergo a latent infection. From latently infected ...

When viral DNA is more “liquidy,” it is more easily injected into host cells—so easily, in fact, that multiple virus-carrying capsids may squeeze their DNA payloads into a host cell simultaneously.

What if I told you that seven human viruses cause 15% of all human cancers? Scary, isn't it? Viruses cause cancer, but how? This is the question that Dr. Annabel Olson is trying to answer during her ...

The FDA approved tenecteplase (TNKase) for adult stroke patients, Genentech announced on Monday. A clot-dissolving tissue ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 44-year-old man was referred for evaluation of hypercalcemia. He had atraumatic rib and clavicle fractures in ...

According to A28 Therapeutics, AT-101 is a targeted lytic peptide molecule that binds to cancer cells and kills them on contact. Pixabay A28 Therapeutics, a privately-held, clinical-stage ...

Lysing clots in brain arteries to reverse an acute ischemic stroke should work. Thrombolysis worked in myocardial infarction (MI). Kolata clearly sided with the neurologists. She also featured the oft ...