Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

Viruses possess a formidable ability to enter our cells to multiply there, thus triggering diseases. However, a team from Washington State University has just shown that by targeting a ...

Artificial intelligence has just helped virologists pull off something that used to take years of trial and error: crippling ...

Filoviruses get their name from the Latin word "filum," meaning thread—a reference to their long, filamentous shape. This ...

A newly identified virus–cell hybrid structure allows viruses to spread faster and more aggressively by hitching a ride on ...

Health officials in the mid-Atlantic region have recently reported a rise in hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD. What is hand, foot and mouth disease, and what causes it? How is it spread? What are ...

Gain-of-function experiments can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people in the wild. But they're also used for many other areas of study within biology.

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds - ticks. Tick season is starting earlier and lasting longer, and ticks are popping up ...

This study is reported by Xueping Zhou and Fangfangli’s group from the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IPP, CAAS), Beijing. Like other positive-sense ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Monday to ban all federal funding of risky gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries without proper oversight of the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon to halt federal funding for risky virus research that Republicans argue may have been the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. The order ...