A virus is a tiny infectious agent that reproduces inside the cells of living hosts. When infected, the host cell is forced to rapidly produce thousands of identical copies of the original virus.

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly led to the development of the first generation of live-attenuated vaccines. The first inactivated influenza vaccine was ...

Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), a leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced that it has been awarded several contracts by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The field of virology focuses on viruses' biology and evolution, providing essential knowledge for disease prevention and the ...

A Texas dairy herd first reported in March that cattle had tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

With avian influenza transferring to cattle, where it's commonly know as influenza A, the question becomes, are swine safe?

The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for encouragement and support for this work. NIH Awards (R37DA025576; R01MH085259) also support SK ...

The findings revealed the protein MX2 assembles structures in the cell that lure in these viruses and then trap them or even take them apart. The research was published in Cell Host and Microbe ...

How did viruses evolve? Are they a streamlined form of something that existed long ago, or an ultimate culmination of smaller genetic elements joined together? Aa Aa Aa The evolutionary history of ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded an assistant professor of biomedical engineering about $1.8 million to study ...

The researchers also looked at how changes in diet impacted the bats' antibody responses to an influenza A-like virus and a pseudotyped Nipah virus. Surprisingly, bats fed a fruit-only diet had a ...