A damaging cotton virus thought to be a recent invader has actually been hiding in U.S. fields for nearly two decades. New ...

FRANCIOTTI EXPLAINS FROM WESTMINSTER. FIRST, WE HAVE TO RUN A COLUMN IN ORDER TO SEPARATE MOLECULES BY THEIR POLARITY. IT SOUNDS COMPLICATED BECAUSE IT IS IN A CHEMISTRY LAB AT MCDANIEL COLLEGE.

A few months into his postdoctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine in 2021, Rafael Michita made a curious observation. Peering at Zika viruses infiltrating placenta cells under a microscope, he ...

Scientists are testing CRISPR gene editing as a potential HIV cure after successfully removing the virus from infected cells ...

Analyses of mpox clades currently in circulation provide clues to how the virus managed to spread worldwide in 2022 — and how ...

HIV antivirals may be the key to stopping HTLV-1, a deadly virus with no cure. In a decade-long study, researchers successfully suppressed the virus in mice and discovered a way to kill infected cells ...

About 5 million people worldwide live with the autoimmune condition lupus. This condition can cause a range of symptoms, including tiredness, fever, joint pain and a characteristic butterfly-shaped ...

Two suspected Nipah virus cases have been reported in West Bengal, prompting authorities to deploy a National Joint Outbreak ...

Gain-of-function experiments can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people in the wild. But they're also used for many other areas of study within biology.

Classical swine fever (CSF) remains one of the most economically and scientifically significant viral diseases affecting swine populations globally. Research in this field has evolved substantially ...

Ticks are responsible for spreading over 25 human and animal diseases. While you may be familiar with some of these—such as Lyme disease—there are many others you've probably never heard of, including ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon to halt federal funding for risky virus research that Republicans argue may have been the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. The order ...