A common childhood virus, BK virus, dormant in the urinary tract, is now linked to DNA damage increasing bladder cancer risk.

Scientists have captured a never-before-seen, high-resolution look at influenza’s stealthy invasion of human cells, revealing ...

You might be surprised to hear that measles is 10 times more contagious than Ebola or the plague. How do epidemiologists ...

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A study published in Science Advances by Dr Simon Baker and colleagues at the University of York, suggests that a virus most ...

A transparent chip no larger than a stick of gum is helping scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, ...

Researchers have developed VIRE, a database that integrates approximately 1.7 million viral genomes derived from more than ...

In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying ...

Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have ...

Scientists film flu viruses surfing and being pulled into human cells in stunning real-time footage. The cell doesn’t wait, ...

We often drink less water in winter because we don't feel thirsty, but dehydration dries out the mucous membranes in the nose ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...