Distinguishing between self and non-self is a critical ability of the immune system. Some pathogens have evolved proteins that resemble those of their host, a mechanism called molecular mimicry, in an ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers believe they discovered a new type of life form living in the human body that were previously misidentified as viruses. According to a new study from bioRxiv that has ...

Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are insidious. They can evade the immune defense and antiviral drugs by becoming "latent ...

Most of us have had to take a few days off work or school because of the flu or COVID-19. But imagine being sick with COVID, ...

Human skin model helps trace EBOV escape The research team, led by Maury and Kelly Messingham, PhD, UI research professor of dermatology, developed a new approach to examine which cells within the ...

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HPV, a very common virus, is found to hijack the body's cells to directly drive skin cancer growth, even after surgeries and ...

In Malaysia, rabies in humans is primarily diagnosed through a post-mortem, or after clinical symptoms appear, using ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...

The Pasadena Public Health Department today reported the city’s first case of West Nile virus in a human. The actual confirmation was made Thursday and no details were released about the circumstances ...