How do viruses get into cells? Their infection tactics determine whether they can jump species or set off a pandemic
- Written by Peter Kasson, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Surface proteins on a virus enable it to attach to and get inside a cell to start replicating.koto_feja/E+ via Getty ImagesCOVID-19, flu, mpox, noroviral diarrhea: How do the viruses that cause these diseases actually infect you?
Viruses cannot replicate on their own, so they must infect cells in your body to make more copies of themselves. The...