Long before Westeros, fantasy and science-fiction author George R.R. Martin had a hand in creating Wild Cards, a shared science-fiction universe involving a pathogen called the "Wild Card" virus that ...

This representation is a discrete time transition model, which allows for classifying the epidemiological models with respect to the number of states (compartments) and their interpretation.

Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain ... The video shows an animation of a computer simulation trajectory, in which a model capsid (tan) assembles within and buds through a ...

In a human cell-based brain model, repetitive physical injuries reactivate the common virus, Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1), ...

The researchers used virus-tracing and cell-tagging techniques ... highly useful, and inexpensive model system for therapeutic testing. “These explants serve as excellent tissue models for ...

The only natural host of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is humans. Model organisms for laboratory studies, especially mice, cannot be infected, which makes the search for a vaccine against HCV extremely ...

The biggest filovirus outbreak, caused by Ebola virus, occurred in three West African countries from 2014 to 2016. It killed more than 11,000 people and infected more than 28,000. More recently ...

Bringing all the components to make viruses in one place makes replication more efficient and also helps hide the virus from the immune system. "Our current model is that ANKLE2 is really ...