A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

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The man’s case didn’t give rise to any widespread variant, but it gave Gupta, with his HIV evolution background, the idea ...

German researchers say the answer may be in virus-reactive memory T cells, which are triggered by COVID infection.

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Learn how the herpes virus hijacks immune pathways to trigger reactivation and what this means for potential new treatments.

We live in an era when human activities are negatively modifying the world at alarming rates. We are experiencing a massive ...

Lower-security labs are used for studying infectious agents that either don’t cause disease in people or pose only moderate risk. The higher-security laboratories are for studying pathogens that can ...