virology, neuroscience

Transplanted CAR stem cells persisted long term and showed multilineage engraftment in tissues that harbor HIV.

Researchers have used a modified rabies virus and fluorescent proteins to tag individual nerve cells in the mouse visual cortex. 

One amino acid change within a viral structural protein makes the difference between mild cases of brain damage and severe microcephaly in mice.

A review of several dozen hospitalized patients in Brazil finds neurological conditions, including inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, in addition to Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Scientists provide a potential biological link between Zika virus infection and microcephaly.

Researchers uncover evidence that a retrovirus embedded within the human genome may play a role in the pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 

A mass spectrometry-based analysis of influenza virions provides a detailed view of their composition.

Neurons may use interferon signals transmitted over great distances to fend off viral infection.

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Viral infections of the central nervous system may trigger cytokines that induce seizures.