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New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

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In a ceremony held last month, the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was awarded to Wesley Sundquist, PhD, Leo T. and Barbara K ...

A new National Academies report recommends ways for the U.S. to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence in biotechnology ...

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In 2015, an outbreak of Zika virus triggered an epidemic in the Americas. People infected with Zika, typically via a mosquito ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

Scientists reveal that reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), driven by TGFβ-induced immune suppression, is a key driver ...

Cornell researcher Raina Plowright and her team observed that when bats in Australia lost access to their habitat and natural ...

A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...