Gain-of-function experiments are ingrained in the scientific process. In many instances, the benefits that stem from gain-of-function experiments are not immediately clear. Only decades later does the ...

Research students at McDaniel College are spending part of their summer on a multiyear project that could one day keep ...

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have identified compounds that can fight off viral infection by activating a ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

Onondaga County has confirmed its first human case of West Nile virus since 2019 and the season’s first detection of Eastern ...

A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may ...

The National Institutes of Health is in the process of suspending funding for 40 experiments because of fears that the research might be dangerous, according to a draft memo.

SHELTON, CONNECTICUT / ACCESS Newswire / July 16, 2025 / NanoViricides, Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE American:NNVC) ...

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. White House officials overrode NIH career staff in deciding which "dangerous gain-of-function research" projects on viruses and pathogens ...

A protein-engineering strategy, in which a constitutively active form of an immune receptor is kept inactive by a peptide ...

Cicero, NY -- An elderly Cicero man is recovering after being infected with the potentially deadly West Nile virus, county officials announced Wednesday morning. The man began his recovery in a local ...

Mosquito pools in the Grand Island area have tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV) and Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV), ...