Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...

House Republicans are pressing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for answers after the agency funded research experiments they say could result in a "supercharged" monkeypox virus. In a letter ...

Virus-built silver appears much more effective against bacteria than commercial silver. In A Nutshell Lab safety tests showed ...

Researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed RNA-based active agents that appear to reliably protect plants against cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common ...

LONDON -- Scientists are embarking on a series of experiments with the bird flu virus ravaging Asian poultry to see how dangerous it would be if it adapted to humans, the chief influenza expert at the ...

A preprint from a research team based mainly at the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories described how the team had created a new hybrid Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by ...

The young scientist, normally calm and measured, seemed on edge when he stopped by his boss's office. "You are not going to believe this one," he told Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who mixed together bird flu and ordinary flu viruses created three extremely virulent new strains, a reminder that influenza viruses can swap genes to create ...

Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen ...

NEW YORK – Doctors may one day be able to control a patient’s HIV infection in a new way: injecting swarms of germ-fighting antibodies, two new studies suggest. In monkeys, that strategy sharply ...

I became aware of SARS-CoV-2 in late December of 2019. I happened to hear a news report about a new unknown virus coming out of China and the next day saw an unusual clinical case report about a ...