This image highlights the various challenges in maintaining cell culture integrity, including contamination from bacteria, viruses, mycoplasmas, and chemicals. It also emphasizes the importance of ...

Research led by the Wuhan Institute of Virology has identified a distinct bat virus lineage capable of infecting human cells using the ACE2 receptor. The newly discovered merbecovirus, designated HKU5 ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Eggs are disappearing from store shelves due to shortages caused by the avian flu outbreak, but never fear ...

SARS-CoV-2 can infect human neurons in cell culture and in the brain of transgenic mice expressing the human receptor of the virus, ACE2, in the respiratory epithelium (K18-hACE2 mice). The mechanisms ...

Rivers and Ward 1 reported the propagation of louping-ill virus in a Maitland-type culture of chick embryo tissue. More recently, Oker-Blom 2 has described a cytopathogenicity in HeLa cell culture ...

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape -- to become either spheres or larger filaments -- to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions ...