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 ...

While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

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

The observatory sits on the summit of Whiteface Mountain overlooking the surrounding wilderness. This location lies in Lake ...

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.

A content creator has sparked a discussion after blaming what he calls the “Bangalore virus” for his decision to move from ...

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

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 50 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a leading cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer. While antiviral drugs ...

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 ...

U.S. scientists have discovered a hidden molecular “switch” that herpes viruses rely on to invade cells. By combining AI, simulations, and lab experiments, the researchers identified and altered a ...