The lytic and lysogenic cycles are the two main phases of a virus’ infective lifecycle and route to replication. The lytic cycle, or virulent infection, involves a virus taking control of a host cell ...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) undergoes a productive infection of epithelial cells at mucosal surfaces and spreads to sensory neurons, where it can undergo a latent infection. From latently infected ...

Bacteriophages are a special type of virus that infect bacteria and have amazing structural and functional diversity. When a bacteriophage infects a bacterium, it can hijack the molecular machinery of ...

What if I told you that seven human viruses cause 15% of all human cancers? Scary, isn't it? Viruses cause cancer, but how? This is the question that Dr. Annabel Olson is trying to answer during her ...

When viral DNA is more “liquidy,” it is more easily injected into host cells—so easily, in fact, that multiple virus-carrying capsids may squeeze their DNA payloads into a host cell simultaneously.