In the spring of 2023, we returned to Península Valdés, a rugged coastal region in Argentine Patagonia, expecting to witness the familiar sights and ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

"The UN estimates that by 2050, common bacterial infections could kill more people than cancer," says Arnold Mathijssen, a ...

Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

Explore Nigeria's health crisis of 2025, a year marked by crippling strikes, major funding cuts, and disease outbreaks that left public hospitals helpless.

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

Study uncovers key insights about how a new class of antiviral drugs works. Cryo-EM images showed the drugs bound to herpes simplex virus (HSV) protein at nearly atomic detail, while optical tweezers ...

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

TikTok, X, and Instagram are flooded with videos about a mysterious “2025 throat virus” that’s making everyone sick. The illness causes a host of debilitating symptoms including runny nose, congestion ...

Tackling a common childhood virus could open the door to preventing bladder cancer, according to new research funded by Kidney Research UK and York Against Cancer. The study, published in Science ...

Scientists mapped the Bas63 bacteriophage in unprecedented detail, uncovering how its tail machinery infects bacteria. The structure reveals rare whisker-collar features and distant evolutionary ties ...

Viruses are tiny — and sneaky. So sneaky that some play a deadly game of hide and seek. The "seek" part is all too familiar: They're always looking for ways to infect humans. Their ability to hide is ...