The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of ...

Hand sanitizer alone does not work well against norovirus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In a new study, bats lap up vaccine-laced saline or chow down on vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. Will that have any impact on ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

With millions of feral rabbits currently hopping around the continent, you might wonder if the viruses that kept their numbers down in the past still work.

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, doctors are still treating long COVID patients with complex symptoms and unknown ...

Norovirus—the “winter vomiting bug”—is responsible for millions of cases of vomiting and diarrhea each year.

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

Windows 11 users face growing cyber threats, from ransomware and phishing to occasional zero-day exploits. Choosing the right antivirus is no longer ...

Inside each of your cells lies a nucleus, its master command center. Protected inside each nucleus are your chromosomes, ...

Dr. Paula Cannon is pursuing one of medicine’s most difficult goals: a cure for HIV.