COVID-19 cases are on the rise again across the United States, with the biggest increases in parts of the South, Southeast ...

How viruses hijack part of your immune system and use it against you. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 11 / 181129142412.htm ...

Artificial cells produce parts of viruses for safe studies. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 07 / 200721102156.htm ...

Adds Divon: "And because the artificial parts - even if they faithfully reproduced parts of the virus - do not include the use of actual viruses, they would be especially safe from beginning to end".

While the virus database as of 2005 contained about 3,600 viruses, plus around 30,000 virus strains (different variant of the same virus), this barely touches the tip of the iceberg. There are ...

An enzyme intended to prevent autoimmune disease can be hijacked and used by some viruses to avoid immune detection. That discovery from Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators appears in PLOS ...

Cases of COVID-19 are now likely growing in 25 states, according to estimates published by the Centers for Disease Control ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

Here’s a few different thoughts. How about we recognize that viruses are an integral part of nature, and that scientifically we have studied less than 1% of their species. There is a virobiome ...

Most of the critical parts of the virus that causes COVID-19 have stayed the same throughout the entire pandemic. The spike protein is a component of the virus that is used to get into human cells ...

This story is a part of Science Friday’s coverage on the novel coronavirus, the agent of the disease COVID-19. Listen to experts discuss the spread, outbreak response, and treatment. Throughout the ...