The RNP complex is the influenza virus’s essential package, the virus’s blueprints and a copy machine all rolled in one. The ...

University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a right-handed, antiparallel double-helix inside influenza ...

Researchers at The Wistar Institute have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which viruses can reprogram ...

Earlier this month, the US government announced a US$500 million (£377 million) investment to accelerate research into ...

Apr. 18, 2025 — A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and ...

Many people are infected with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and most are unaware of it. However, EBV can sometimes cause ...

An experimental evaluation of the risk of influenza transmission from contaminated objects finds that viable virus was rarely ...

This manuscript introduces a useful protein-stability-based fitness model for simulating protein evolution and unifying non-neutral models of molecular evolution with phylogenetic models. The model is ...

Starting in August, eligible patients can receive shots of 4CMenB, an existing vaccine for meningococcal B disease that ...

SAN DIEGO — West Nile virus has been detected in San Diego County for the first time this year after two dead crows that were found in Lemon Grove tested positive for the virus, county officials ...

like human influenza viruses, can also infect hogs, and when a bird virus and a human virus infect the same pig cell, their different genes can be shuffled and exchanged like playing cards ...