Some 17 months ago, scientists detected an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in dairy cattle in Nebraska in ...

Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the warning of a new paper in the journal Science Advances, which concluded that ...

A new longitudinal study provides critical insights into the intricate interplay between human immunity and viral evolution ...

Researchers have developed EVE-Vax, an AI tool that forecasts viral mutations and designs test proteins to guide next-generation vaccines. The breakthrough could allow scientists to build vaccines ...

In the field of biomedicine and public health, continuous viral mutation and evolution may enable viruses to cross species barriers, infect non-natural hosts, and subsequently trigger human-to-human ...

Endogenous retroviruses are remnants of ancient viral infections that have integrated into the germline DNA of their hosts, becoming a permanent part of the host genome. These viral sequences, once ...

In a recent review published in the journal Virology, researchers examined the increasing diversity of human viruses, their epidemiological significance, and preventive strategies to mitigate emerging ...

The effectiveness of this season’s flu vaccine in Canada is 40% against medically attended infection with influenza A (H3N2) ...

In nature, evolution takes years to sculpt new traits. In the lab, scientists hope to achieve this feat much faster: Being able to evolve proteins with enhanced or novel functions has important ...