It started as a respiratory illness—or so everyone thought. But it quickly became apparent that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...

A macrophage is a type of white blood cell that stimulates other immune system cells. Next, the researchers recreated a SARS-CoV-2 infection in human tissue in the lab to see whether the virus ...

More intriguingly, what macrophages were remembering wasn't unique to any particular virus. The findings increase our ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics and Heidelberg University have observed largely intact HIV-1 capsids as ...

but this NOVA Hot Science isn't about the fight against the AIDS virus. Fighting Back instead takes a look at the battlefield where the fight takes place, putting you into the world of the immune ...

Normally, monocytes and macrophages ingest and destroy pathogens, but instead of destroying the dengue virus, both types of white blood cells are targeted and infected by the virus. The dengue ...