Researchers have made a significant step forward in understanding how gut bacteria, and specifically a newly discovered virus ...

“Our analyses show that the historical [human Rhinovirus] A genome represents an extinct lineage closely related to HRV A19 ...

Stanford researchers develop breakthrough nasal spray vaccine that could potentially protect against a variety of infections, ...

Long-acting antiviral medications are transforming HIV prevention and care, requiring only minimalistic dosing. But as the use of lenacapavir expands, scientists are probing a critical question: If ...

For much of modern biology, scientists argued that viruses are not alive, pointing to a basic limitation: they cannot make proteins on their own and must depend entirely on the cells they infect for ...

A study reveals how two proteins cooperate in a key early step of antiviral detection, as reported by researchers at Science ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t belong in the lungs.

There are more than 170 rhinoviruses known to science. These causes of the common cold are found in noses all around you, and ...

The columnist notes that until recently we thought we lived in an age scientific and medical advancements, but with ...

Biochemists at Caltech have identified how viruses have converged on a method for killing bacteria. The researchers have homed in on an underexplored small transporter called MurJ that is a vital part ...

Vaccines have traditionally worked by teaching the immune system to recognize a specific virus or bacterium—in effect, ...

A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California, scientists announced ...