Researchers successfully decoded the genome of the 1918 influenza virus by utilizing an over 100-year-old formalin-fixed ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The absolute ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

Kolkata: While Covid is on the verge of making a complete exit, other season-change viruses have started filling the void. The Covid outbreak had kept.

We show using isolated human skin specimens that dengue infection elicits a marked inflammatory response in European ancestry skin, leading to infection of resident cells that then migrate out of skin ...

On the other hand, there are viruses capable of integrating themselves into the human genome and staying dormant, without showing any signs and symptoms for a while, leading to a chronic infection or ...

Billions carry herpes simplex virus 1. New research reveals it hijacks human genes with eerie precision.

Twenty brand-new viruses — including two that are genetically similar to known deadly diseases — have been discovered in wild bats in China, raising “urgent concerns” from experts about ...