HIV-1 particles are released from infected cells in an immature, non-infectious form. The main building material for a virus particle is about 2000 copies of a long, rod-shaped protein called Gag. To ...

It may sound like a blockbuster movie crossover, but researchers are investigating whether so-called matrix proteins could prevent the sort of global pandemic depicted in the film "Contagion." The ...

Paramyxoviruses have the potential to trigger a devastating pandemic. This family of viruses includes measles, Nipah virus, mumps, Newcastle disease and canine distemper. "The infectiousness of ...

After an outbreak of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 (pH1N1) virus, we had previously reported the emergence of a recombinant canine influenza virus (CIV) between the pH1N1 virus and the classic H3N2 CIV.