For the first time, scientists have been able to watch the flu virus live as it infects human airway cells. They developed a ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...

The key players of our immune system aren’t well understood. Here’s how vaccines give our immune players a home advantage to ...

Urban expansion brings wildlife closer to people, creating new pathways for viruses to spread from animals into human communities.

Medical gas plasma can render adenoviruses harmless within a short period of time. This has been demonstrated by a recent ...

A leading infectious disease expert says authorities are "keeping a close eye on what's happening overseas", after a woman died in Bangladesh from Nipah virus late last month. UNSW's Professor Raina ...

Mass deaths of crows in Tamil Nadu have triggered a bird flu alert after tests confirmed the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus in ...

Key points Nipah virus is a bat-borne virus which was first identified in 1998. It is not present in Australia It can cause ...

How this fungus influences the development of melanoma cells has for the first time been explained by the MicrobiomicsEHU ...

A growing body of research suggests that everything from the shape of your lungs to how you enunciate your Ts and Ks could ...

The present outbreak of the Nipah virus infection in West Bengal, India, is the latest of a series of flare-ups of the frequently fatal, fruit-bat–spread zoonotic disease. Nipah (Henipavirus nipahense ...

Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news. Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life. In a new study, ...