A study published in PNAS Microbiology found that enveloped viruses harbor greater cross-species transmissibility and are more likely to cause zoonotic infections than nonenveloped viruses. The ...

Just as bacteria can develop antibiotic resistance, viruses can also evade drug treatments. Developing therapies against these microbes is difficult because viruses often mutate or hide themselves ...

Antiviral therapies are notoriously difficult to develop, as viruses can quickly mutate to become resistant to drugs. But what if a new generation of antivirals ignores the fast-mutating proteins on ...

Researchers at the Nanoscience Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have made what they describe as a breakthrough in the fight against viral diseases, ...

Enveloped viruses get their outer coat by budding from cells they've invaded. CRISPR-Cas9 researchers coopted this behavior to produce envelope-derived vehicles that encapsulate Cas9 proteins (dark ...

This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the seventh installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the antimicrobial efficiency of two commercially available disinfectants containing quaternary ammonium compounds ...