Researchers have invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens – the closest yet ...

Researchers in New Jersey are still puzzled by the ranavirus disease that kills amphibians in droves, which could have cascading effects that impact humans, too.

Biochemists at Caltech have identified how viruses have converged on a method for killing bacteria. The researchers have homed in on an underexplored small transporter called MurJ that is a vital part ...

Vaccines have traditionally worked by teaching the immune system to recognize a specific virus or bacterium—in effect, ...

Drugs made of mRNA have the potential to transform medicine—if only they could get into cells in one piece. Now, University of Connecticut researchers have shown that packaging mRNA like a virus could ...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can cause certain types of cancer or autoimmune diseases, but how the body controls this common viral infection is ...

In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit fly ...

Epstein–Barr virus infects most adults. Understanding its role in Multiple Sclerosis could transform prevention and treatment ...

A leading infectious disease expert says authorities are "keeping a close eye on what's happening overseas", after a woman died in Bangladesh from Nipah virus late last month. UNSW's Professor Raina ...

A growing body of research suggests that everything from the shape of your lungs to how you enunciate your Ts and Ks could ...