Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers from Purdue University and the National Institutes of Health have discovered the structure of the Zika virus. Image: Purdue University/Kuhn and Rossman ...

The paper, by D. Sirohi at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and colleagues was titled, "The 3.8Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika Virus." Advanced Search Home ...

The paper, by D. Sirohi at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, and colleagues was titled, "The 3.8Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika Virus." Advanced Search Home ...

Zika virus, first identified in 1947 in Uganda, had been thought to produce a rare and mild disease until it suddenly emerged in Brazil in 2015 and spread explosively through South America, Central ...

“We are working to understand what the important features of an antibody are that makes it effective at neutralizing — blocking — the virus.” As part of the team in 2017 that mapped the structure of a ...

Oct. 25, 2023 — Zika virus infection in pregnant rhesus macaques slows fetal growth and affects how infants and mothers interact in the first month of life, according to a new study. The work ...

A harmful virus that can cause devastating brain damage in babies could offer up a surprising new treatment for adult brain cancer, according to US scientists. Until now, Zika has been seen only ...

This past year, the Zika virus has emerged as global problem. The virus, which is primarily transmitted via mosquitoes, has been spreading around the Americas since May 2015. One of the reasons it ...

The first participant has received a dose of a new Zika virus vaccine being trialled by the University of Liverpool at the Clinical Research Facility within the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, ...

A new outbreak of Zika virus is quite possible, warn researchers, with a single mutation potentially enough to trigger an explosive spread. The disease caused a global medical emergency in 2016 ...

My research program will blend my interests in cell signaling (which I aim to learn in Dr. Indira Mysorekar' s lab) with my previous expertise in protein structure/function, viral proteomics, Zika ...