The Zika virus builds tiny tunnels, called tunneling nanotubes, to stealthily transport material needed to infect nearby ...

Researchers discovered that Zika virus constructs nanotubes to transport infection across the placental barrier undetected.

The publication referenced demonstrates that the bat virus can use a human ... which uses a powerful microscope. HKU5-CoV-2 was able to infect human cell cultures in the mini-human organ models ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread ...

At Penn State, researchers were examining live cells infected with the Zika virus under a fluorescent microscope when they noticed long tube-like structures connecting neighboring cells ...