With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

Scientists have discovered that T cells -- white blood cells that can destroy harmful pathogens -- can completely prevent viral infection, to an extent previously thought only possible due to ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore General Hospital have discovered that T cells-white blood cells that can destroy harmful pathogens-can completely prevent viral infection, to ...

Challenge trials help researchers study immune responses. Skeptics still doubt the approach is worth the risks ...

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different ...

A chronic gut infection caused by a common virus may be linked to the progression of Alzheimer ’s disease, a new study has ...

RNA is the molecule that reads the genetic information stored in DNA. It's critical for the proper functioning of cells, and in a new study published in Nature Communications, University of California ...

A CHINESE scientist at the centre of the Covid origins debate is still carrying out “risky” research on coronaviruses, ...

Like workers at a factory or office, proteins in a cell must be in the right department to do their jobs. But scientists have ...

Ebola is generally known to spread through contact with bodily fluids from individuals who have the infection.

“The average bird flu virus is not very good at all at sticking to the cells in our mucous membrane, which is what it needs to cause a human infection,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor ...