Traditionally, bacterial toxins have been seen as killers of target cells. But is there more than meets the eye? Umeå University Professor Teresa Frisan and her team have discovered that toxin-host interactions are more ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 7, 2021
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Viruses lurk in the gray area between the living and the nonliving, according to scientists. Like living things, they replicate but they don't do it on their own. The HIV-1 virus, like all viruses, needs to hijack a host ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 31, 2021
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Researchers from Bremen, together with their colleagues from the Max Planck Genome Center in Cologne and the aquatic research institute Eawag from Switzerland, have discovered a unique bacterium that lives inside a unicellular ...
Evolution
Mar 3, 2021
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The COVID-19 virus holds some mysteries. Scientists remain in the dark on aspects of how it fuses and enters the host cell; how it assembles itself; and how it buds off the host cell.
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 26, 2021
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Fool the novel coronavirus once and it can't cause infection of cells, new research suggests.
Biochemistry
Feb 22, 2021
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A study that identifies how a coronavirus protein called Nsp1 blocks the activity of genes that promote viral replication provides hope for new COVID-19 treatments.
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 16, 2021
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has used robust computer simulations to understand how HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, fuses with the host cell membrane. Published in the ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 8, 2021
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Scientists at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Physics have succeeded for the first time in imaging the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with a helium ion microscope. In contrast to the more conventional electron microscopy, the samples ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2021
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A chemical probe molecule—a "first gen" molecule that can be used for drug development—that targets a host cell's protein quality control pathways can dramatically reduce infection by Dengue and Zika viruses. The research ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 27, 2021
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The sea is full of microorganisms. Smaller than one millimeter and often composed of a single cell, they come in every shape and size imaginable, from bacteria and microalgae to protozoa. But there are also viruses—incomplete ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2021
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