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 ...
Historically, efforts to assess 'zoonotic risk' have focused mainly on quantifying the potential for cross-species emergence of viruses from animal hosts. However, viruses clearly differ in relative ...
Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health have removed a major roadblock to better understanding of mpox (formerly, ...
The human body is naturally equipped with defenses to fight off viral infections. For a virus to successfully infect it, it must first overcome these defenses. To do so, viruses have evolved ...
Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have removed a major roadblock to better understanding of mpox (formerly, ...
Viral infections can wreak havoc on human lives and livelihoods. For instance, the highly infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causal agent of the ongoing ...
Research led by the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute has discovered a novel, highly virulent strain of HIV in the Netherlands. The new HIV variant results in a higher viral load and faster ...