1 During the pre-eruptive and early-rash stages of measles, these cells are particularly numerous, and their inclusions are quite large. Because of this fact, measles infection seemed to provide ...

which are a type of immune cell that has specialised in producing just one type of antibody. But the measles virus can infect and destroy these cells, causing "immune amnesia". Researchers at ...

So far CanVirex has created measles viruses encoding four different classes of immune modulators that recruit and activate immune effector cells: (1) tumor-associated antigens, (2) cytokines ...

Measles belongs to a group of highly related ... a virus often has to adapt in order to use the new host cell machinery. We call these potential host-blocks to virus infection the species barrier.

June 27, 2024 — What happens when measles virus meets a human cell? The viral machinery unfolds in just the right way to reveal key pieces that let it fuse itself into the host cell ...

The measles virus is an enveloped virus bearing ... For infection to happen, the H protein first binds to a receptor on the target cell, and then the F protein changes its conformation to fuse ...

Edwin Stone, Bernard Sagaert, and Khaled Yamout go behind the headlines to discuss what the ongoing measles outbreak in the ...

You are about to create a live-attenuated vaccine, which means that you need to alter a pathogen—in this case a measles virus—so that it will still invade cells in the body and use those cells ...

A measles outbreak in New Brunswick is set to push Canada's annual case count to the highest it's been in five years, ...