The science-fiction drama Pluribus centers on novelist Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), one of the few humans left untouched ...

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 ...

At Empa, an interdisciplinary research institute for materials science and technology within the ETH Domain, researchers are ...

The genomes of phages—viruses that infect bacteria—are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. Less than four years ago, a team led by Prof. Rotem ...

Most disaster movies behave like physics is an annoying relative who was never invited to the premiere. Oceans rise on ...

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve ...

Nivedita Pujari, a postdoctoral researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, studies how herpes simplex virus uses ...

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

A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from ...

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

Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.