The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating whether the U.S. stockpile of bird flu vaccines is still well ...

A new study has punctured a longstanding assumption about the source of the most common type of DNA mutation seen in the genome--one that contributes to many genetic diseases, including cancer.

It now looks overwhelmingly likely that the mutation was the result of some botched experiment in a Chinese lab. “Some scientists were clearly splicing bits of virus together like the witches in ...

“It now looks overwhelmingly likely that the mutation was the result of some botched experiment in a Chinese lab.” The virus leaking from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a view long ...

Respiratory viruses typically enter our body within droplets that are exhaled by infected people, and inhaled through our nose. Those viruses proceed to reproduce while infecting the cells lining ...

The drug works by disrupting the virus's genome, causing it to develop random mutations as it replicates, weakening the virus to prevent replication, thereby enabling clearance of infection.

Due to a significant 55% rise in chikungunya cases this year, the health department will conduct genomic sequencing of positive samples to check for mutations ... neurotropic virus in the ...

The National Institute of Virology (NIV), meanwhile, has been studying patient samples to determine if Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) variants have been responsible for the spike in cases this year.

The evolutionary barriers to mammalian adaptation of these viruses are lower than previously thought, as shown by rapid mutation accumulation in key viral proteins. H5N1 viruses were initially ...

The variant, called XEC, is appearing worldwide. The SARS-CoV-2 virus mutation has also been spotted in at least half of the United States, according to preliminary numbers from the Global Initiative ...

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Dan ...