RNA viruses pose significant challenges to public health due to their high mutation rates and diverse mechanisms of infection which allow them to rapidly adapt to new hosts and evade therapeutic ...

So, researchers at Northwestern started their journey to figure out why this might be happening. They discovered when someone gets badly infected with COVID, the virus can actually enter the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to heightened public interest in learning about viruses and how they can cause diseases.

An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us all the importance of educating the public about viral infections. Besides educating the general public, we need to equip the next generation of scientists by ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to heightened public interest in learning about viruses and how they can cause diseases. There has ...

The virus takes control of three key host proteins that suppress the activity of the complement system. Researchers at the ...

Were there already viruses on Earth when the first living cells appeared billions of years ago? – Aayush A., age 16, India How life on Earth started has puzzled scientists for a long time. And it ...

Since its introduction in 1987, antiretroviral therapy has transformed human immunodeficiency virus ... cell counts despite high viral loads may offer new avenues for treatment. In the study ...

In addition, as the Arctic’s soil and permafrost thaw, they could be releasing trapped microbes, “zombie viruses” and bacteria, including anthrax. “The polar bears are a good indicator for ...