A new PEARLS article in PLoS Pathogens reviews the rapid evolution and pandemic potential of emerging influenza A viruses, ...

Herpes transmission often occurs through unexpected pathways and in contexts where people typically feel safe from infection ...

The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

A destructive exotic tomato plant disease that had a major impact in South Australia and Victoria has been linked to New ...

Seth Donoughe, a research scientist at SecureBio and a co-author of the paper, says that the results make him a “little ...

His executive order targeted the elimination of what is called gain-of-function, which studies how viruses become more ...

Scientists in Blacksburg have discovered a large, previously unseen virus inside algae. The virus poses no risk to human ...

Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team has developed a method that can be used to study the interaction of viruses with host cells in unprecedented ...

"We show that if you can see where a virus is evolving ahead of time, you can begin to make future-proof vaccines," said first author Noor Youssef, a scientific lead for the Predictive Modeling for ...