Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...

Dynamin is a protein that plays a central role in endocytosis—the process where cells internalize substances by wrapping them in cell membrane vesicles. For a vesicle to detach, the neck of the ...

Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic ...

How can a virus with only five proteins dominate a human cell that contains thousands? This question has long puzzled ...

The custom-built microscopy system allowed researchers to film the very instant an influenza virus attaches itself to a cell ...

Why do nerve cells die in dementia - and can this process be slowed down? Researchers from the Technical University of Munich ...

Scientists film flu viruses surfing and being pulled into human cells in stunning real-time footage. The cell doesn’t wait, ...

Winter has returned, so is the flu season accompanied by flu, fever, aching limbs and runny nose,that has forced scientists ...

The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that ...

Scientists have captured a never-before-seen, high-resolution look at influenza’s stealthy invasion of human cells, revealing ...