A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.

A new study shows the intricacies of the cold virus and how it interacts with nasal airway cells, revealing why some people ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

Scientists found that nasal cells act as a first line of defense against the common cold, working together to block ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A virus closely related to smallpox disguises itself as a piece of a broken cell to trick its way into cells, Swiss researchers said on Thursday in a discovery that could lead to ...

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis arise when the immune system turns against the body itself. Yet for most of ...

One of the big debates in long COVID research is whether the virus can persist in the body, or whether it leaves the immune ...

Monteil and her colleagues first investigated where the virus might attach to cells. To do that, the researchers randomly mutated single amino acids in rodent haploid cells and then exposed these ...