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 ...

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

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

The virus, still not fully understood, is part of a family previously thought to be harmless. However, recent links have been ...

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

The ostriches in question are at the heart of a legal battle in Ottawa, where federal judges are now deciding whether birds ...

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

A team at Scripps Research has created a microchip that can rapidly reveal how a person's antibodies respond to viruses using only a drop of blood. This game-changing technology, called mEM, condenses ...

Taxonomy — classifying viruses into genus, species and so forth — has the power to affect public health For the first time, ...

On Tuesday, the Grand River Mosquito Control District (GRMCD) announced that it will offer local in-house PCR lab testing to ...