The young scientist, normally calm and measured, seemed on edge when he stopped by his boss's office. "You are not going to believe this one," he told Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical ...

NEW YORK – Doctors may one day be able to control a patient’s HIV infection in a new way: injecting swarms of germ-fighting antibodies, two new studies suggest. In monkeys, that strategy sharply ...

It should be hard — exceedingly hard — to obtain the synthetic DNA needed to recreate the virus that caused the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic without authorization. But my lab found that it’s ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who mixed together bird flu and ordinary flu viruses created three extremely virulent new strains, a reminder that influenza viruses can swap genes to create ...

A preprint from a research team based mainly at the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories described how the team had created a new hybrid Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications adds further evidence to the bradykinin storm theory of COVID-19's viral pathogenesis - a theory that was posited two years ago by a team of researchers ...

House Republicans are pressing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for answers after the agency funded research experiments they say could result in a "supercharged" monkeypox virus. In a letter ...

Researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed RNA-based active agents that appear to reliably protect plants against cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common ...

Chinese researchers did conduct an experiment using a coronavirus that they found had 100% lethality in mice. However, the scientists did not "create" the virus, and it did not infect any humans.

In offices across Asia, desks are empty and the phones are quiet, as the region grapples with a deadly virus. In major hubs like Hong Kong and Singapore, shops are shuttered, public facilities are ...