Traumatic brain injuries, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), have recently emerged as a major risk factor for ...

Researchers are zeroing in on the ways SARS-CoV-2 damages and persists inside blood vessels, raising the risk for heart ...

The virus binds to that cell, slips inside and uses the cell's machinery ... directly but would interfere with it enough to allow the body's immune system to clear the infection.

But there is ongoing research unpicking what the virus is doing inside the body. If we focus on a single neuron - one instrument in the brain's orchestra - it is coated in a fatty layer of ...

President Donald Trump has questioned whether injecting people with disinfectants and exposing patients' bodies to UV light could help treat the coronavirus. The Reality Check team has been ...

Once inside the new host cell ... specifically tailored to fight this new pathogen. But because the body has never seen this virus before, it can take weeks to produce the right ones.

The death of a Louisiana resident and a severe infection involving a B.C. teen has experts worried about the emerging threat ...

RNA is the molecule that reads the genetic information stored in DNA. It's critical for the proper functioning of cells, and in a new study published in Nature Communications, University of California ...

The content is produced solely by The Conversation. Ebola is a terrifying virus which, if left untreated, causes bleeding inside the body and through the eyes, nose, mouth and rectum. Case ...

CDC officials found several mutations in samples collected from people suffering severe respiratory illness that “may result in increased virus binding ... in their own body to protect their ...