Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically ...

They say that change takes time. Well, that's not the case for RNA. The small biological molecule acts like a switchboard ...

Pasteurization at 63°C and 72°C effectively inactivates influenza A viruses in milk, ensuring its safety for human ...

Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. Apart from a few 'miracle' cases, antiretrovirals only suppress HIV, they don't kill it. But new research is promising.

Saliva-based diagnostics have emerged as a transformative approach in medical testing, offering a non-invasive and efficient alternative to blood sampling. However, the complexity of saliva, which ...

coli, a simple model organism, to map how metabolites—small molecules essential for life—interact with key proteins such as enzymes and transcription ... of turning the process on its head ...

But the coronavirus causes COVID, while the influenza virus causes the flu. COVID also spreads faster than the flu and remains contagious for longer periods. Both illnesses cause symptoms such ...

1 Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, China 2 College of Agronomy, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China WRKY transcription factors (TFs) are one ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a step closer to developing much-needed medicines.Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus ...

But winter’s scents aren’t the only things being spread. Winter also marks the height of the respiratory virus season, a period of sniffles, sneezes, congestion, fever and other maladies brought about ...