The beauty of physics at the cellular scale is part of what draws biomedical engineers and biologists like us to the field of mechanobiology: the study of how physical forces influence biology.

Earlier this year, an outbreak of Andes hantavirus on a cruise ship, which killed three passengers and sickened 13, ...

Researchers are working on an off-the-shelf vaccine that trains natural killer cells to guard the nose and lungs against flu, ...

Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic invaders as they latch on, glide across the surface and slip inside. Instead of a ...

In simple terms: a virus is a tiny package of genetic instructions with a delivery system. Outside a cell it is metabolically inert. Once inside a susceptible cell, it redirects the cell's machinery ...

Researchers have answered a longstanding question about how certain non-enveloped viruses punch through the cell membrane to deliver their genetic material. The findings deepen understanding of ...

Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, have a fiendishly simple purpose in life: attach to a bacterial cell, inject ...

Researchers have figured out a missing piece of the puzzle of how human cells detect invading viruses and mount an immune response within an hour. This new insight into the battle between viruses and ...