Now, Gilead has conducted an analysis of a phenomenon that can undermine all infectious disease therapies, including lenacapavir—HIV’s ability to evolve resistance to the breakthrough antiviral.

Since its first approval in 2022, Gilead Sciences’ lenacapavir—a twice-yearly injectable—has come to be a potential game ...

Across the world, only a few dozen people appear to carry a genetic glitch that lets them brush off viruses that flatten ...

Human norovirus, a positive-strand RNA virus that is the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis accounting for an estimated 685 million cases and approximately 212,000 deaths globally per year, has no ...

During viral reproduction, the influenza polymerase (top left, in blue) scans along the ribonucleoprotein helix to produce messenger RNA. Credit: Science Like a camera-shy teenager, influenza’s ...

The common cold is typically caused by viruses, most often rhinoviruses, which infect the upper respiratory tract (nose and throat). 1 Zinc has been reported to block the replication of rhinovirus. By ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

Zika virus hijacks a key protein implicated in brain development for its own replication. Researchers led by Associate Professor Priya Shah at the University of California, Davis (CA, USA), have ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results in a smaller-than-expected head. A new study published Jan. 13 in mBio shows ...