Health officials have published a new list of viruses and bacteria they say pose the greatest threat to public health.

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were ...

A collaborative research effort between the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and the A*STAR Institute of High ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." ...

Measles continues to spread in Texas and other states and has caused the first reported U.S. death from the virus in a decade ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

A newly discovered information-stealing malware called Arcane is stealing extensive user data, including VPN account ...

A team that includes a RIKEN researcher has refined a lab test for measuring protein aggregate levels in samples from patients with certain neurodegenerative diseases. This has the potential to ...

Emerging and re-emerging viral infections pose a constant threat to animals. In recent years there is sudden increase in the number of emerging and ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

Cornell researcher Raina Plowright and her team observed that when bats in Australia lost access to their habitat and natural ...

At 37, the former bakery manager survives as a living Venn diagram of America’s pandemic failures. She was infected with Sars ...