RNA vaccines saved millions of lives during COVID-19 but have limitations like waning immunity and complex production. Scientists are now testing a new platform called DoriVac, which uses folded DNA ...
On March 1, Florida cut off access to H.I.V. medications for 10,000 to 16,000 residents whose prescriptions are paid for by a ...
Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve ...
A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from replicating inside an infected host or prevent the virus from transmitting to ...
A compound found in seaweed may be able to do what no vaccine has managed to achieve: stop norovirus before it can infect human cells, according to new research. This is the conclusion of a new study ...
Image: Universal Pictures While the crisis of a global pandemic (or near-extinction) is averted by the end of Wise’s sci-fi thriller, the implications are still dire. As humans tend to cycle through ...
The virus often mutates by simply deleting small pieces of its genetic code. The mutations "disguise" the virus from antibodies.
Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team ...
Dr. Paula Cannon, a Distinguished Professor at USC, is researching gene therapy approaches to engineer immune cells that could potentially cure HIV. Motivated by losing friends during the early AIDS ...
Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...
A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...
A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...