The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be ...

Canadian health officials have confirmed bird flu in a British Columbia teen. The Public Health Agency of Canada said ...

McMaster researchers found that bacteriophages treated under specific conditions form flower-like structures that are highly ...

A Canadian teenager is currently in critical condition after contracting a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, a British ...

Electron microscopes are expensive but highly useful pieces of kit. Around the world they are used to study all sorts of samples, from energy materials for battery technologies to virus particles ...

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged ...

Researchers who work with bacteriophages -- viruses that eat bacteria -- had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise after treating samples to view under an electron microscope ...

The viruses that infect bacteria are the most abundant biological entities on the planet. For example, a recent simple study of 92 showerheads and 36 toothbrushes from American bathrooms found ...

The virus – given an Indigenous name that translates to “dangerous Merri lurker” in English – has the potential to save ...

In support of this hypothesis they publish electron micrographs of a number of “giant” spherical and polymorphic particles of influenza virus. They claim that these have constrictions and ...