One reason it's so difficult to produce effective vaccines against some viruses, including influenza and HIV, is that these viruses mutate ver

The fact is, we live in a world of viruses —viruses that are unfathomably diverse, immeasurably abundant.

Doctors at hospitals across Massachusetts and the globe believe the measures being taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus are responsible for a

Scientists from the Pacific Quantum Center of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) figured out how the AFV3-109 protein with slipknot structure fo

Guard chickens have triggered a health alert on the dangers of mosquitoes after one tested positive to the potentially deadly Murray Valley Encepha

COVID-19 prevention measures such as widespread mask wearing have helped suppress other common respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, though exp

Vaccine independence is important, because relying on relationships with other countries doesn’t always work, researchers say.

Researchers have for the first time identified the way viruses like the poliovirus and the common cold virus 'package up' their genetic c

Systematic collection and analysis of natural marine compounds and the review of life histories and genomics of three families of RNA viruses revea

More hunters turning forests into war zones isn’t good news for wildlife.

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Di

Giant viruses, a group discovered only in 2003, are mysteriously large and complex, seemingly between bacteria and the tiny, simple viruses of clas

Researchers have developed a microscopy technique that is 6.6 times more sensitive than other current techniques of its type, as shown in a paper p

Just when we thought we were about to defeat Covid-19 by launching our Oxford vaccine, an alarming strain of the virus has emerged to strike fear i

Honda Kurumaku not only promises to prevent the entry of viruses into the car cabin but to also destroy ones present inside when the air recirculat

For better or worse, the coronavirus pandemic thrust virologists, epidemiologists and other normally low-profile scientists into the pop culture cr

There's new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus hitting South Africa and the United Kingdom.

The coronavirus pandemic has thrust virus experts and other normally low-profile scientists into the pop culture crucible this year. BOSTON — Dr.

The coronavirus pandemic has thrust virus experts and other normally low-profile scientists into the pop culture crucible this year.

In April, when Covid-19 infections showed no signs of abating, and the evidence was growing in favour of wearing face masks to prevent transmission

The way my siblings and I responded to my family’s chicken-pox outbreak in 1973 may shed light on Americans’ responses to COVID-19 in 2020.

After having been unveiled earlier this year, the AiroDoctor is finally available for sale.

Vaccines train our bodies to recognize and fend off germs before they make us sick.

Health experts said the current Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are still effective against the newer, more contagious strains spreading across the UK.