Scripps professor Sumit Chanda says improving coronavirus care is especially important to get ahead of any future mutations ...

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make ...

New research on H5N1 bird flu in milk shows viral fragments persist after pasteurization but pose minimal health risks to ...

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched ...

Dengue is surging globally, but Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are blocking virus transmission. Trials show ...

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

New study findings could change treatments for HIV in young children. HIV remission may be possible for very young children ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new health advisory about the latest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thirty-seven confirmed cases ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

The prospect of an outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle triggering a pandemic in humans is one step closer than ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered some of the inner workings of a recently discovered bacterial immune system ...

Mid-September to late October is the optimal window for people to receive the updated vaccinations to protect against severe ...