WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University researchers Michael Rossmann and Richard Kuhn have been at the forefront of discovery with the help of a technology that recently led to a Nobel Prize in ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A team of researchers has determined the structure of the Zika virus, an important discovery in the development of antiviral treatments and vaccines. The researchers, led by ...

Any regions within the virus structure unique to Zika have the potential to explain differences in how a virus is transmitted and how it manifests as a disease, said Richard Kuhn, director of the ...

Researchers at Purdue have achieved a cryo-EM structure of mature Zika virus at 3.1Å resolution. The three envelope glycoproteins are colored yellow, blue and red. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nearly 300 media outlets around the world carried news of the discovery of the Zika virus structure by Purdue’s structural biology team. An event in Hockmeyer Hall of Structural ...

Researchers have revealed the molecular structure of a protein produced by the Zika virus that is thought to be involved in the virus's reproduction and its interaction with a host's immune system.

Zika, a mosquito-borne virus first identified in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey, continues to perplex scientists in many ways nearly 80 years later. While many people with a Zika virus infection ...

The Zika virus arrived in the continental United States this summer, with the first cases of local, mosquito-borne transmission publicly reported in the Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties at the end ...