Scientists at Duke University have created a real-time video that captures the frantic movements of a single virus as it tries to infect a cell. The video shows a part of the process that’s normally ...

Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team has developed a method that can be used to study the interaction of viruses with host cells in unprecedented ...

But watching how the flu virus sneaks into cells has been difficult because standard microscopes can't capture these fast, tiny steps clearly. In a breakthrough study, scientists from Switzerland and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 14, a team of scientists at Boston University released a pre-print study reporting that they had created a version of ...

We’ll understand if you’re puzzled by the eerie image below. It’s a tiny piece of the Lassa virus, which can double a person over in pain, make their head swell and, in some cases, quickly result in ...

Recorded with the iSCAT microscope, this video shows individual BMV viruses assembling at 55x normal speed. Each dark spot is a different virus particle and the darkness of the spot indicates its size ...

Researchers have captured the first real-time footage of viruses on the move, right before they hijack a cell. When Courtney "CJ" Johnson pulls up footage from her Ph.D. dissertation, it's like she's ...