Starting with tiny molecular building blocks, researchers in Rockville have made a functioning virus in record time and with unprecedented precision, a significant step toward the goal of being able ...

In the United States, respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is creating a health care crisis in the pediatric system, which already has smaller capacity than the adult health system, placing the ...

Public health officials are monitoring five coronavirus variants circulating in the United States, all of which appear to spread more quickly than the original strain. Scientists say those variants ...

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 ...

Several coronavirus variants emerged before the vaccines were rolled out in late 2020. The COVID-19 vaccines help reduce the spread of the virus, therefore decreasing the likelihood that it will ...

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have created a computer virus that can spread via Wi-Fi as efficiently as the common cold infects humans. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is ...

Dr. Haihang Ye (right), research associate in mechanical engineering, and doctoral student Yaning Liu are part of a University of Texas at Dallas research team that developed a new virus rapid test ...

An artificial virus capable of attacking superbug infections resistant to antibiotics has been bioengineered by researchers at University College London (UCL), National Physical Laboratory (NPL), ...

A wreath of ten crAssviruses – hugely abundant viruses that infect gut bacteria and are part of your normal, healthy ...

This is a new one. Instead of the established understanding that vaccines help reduce the spread of COVID-19, and thereby decrease the likelihood that the virus will be able to mutate enough to create ...