Over the past several years, monitoring the transmission fitness of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants has been critical for pandemic forecasting and public health response. However, existing methods, such ...

RNA vaccines saved millions of lives during COVID-19 but have limitations like waning immunity and complex production. Scientists are now testing a new platform called DoriVac, which uses folded DNA ...

Four years after infection with the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 strain, up to 60% of health care workers (HCWs) in Switzerland still ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

The question of origins has long bedevilled the study of pandemics. In pre-modern times, outbreaks of infectious disease were ...

Nepal, March 5 -- 2003, when severe acute respiratory syndrome-1 (SARS-CoV-1) first emerged in China, it triggered a global alert, including in Nepal. I was then working as a junior medical officer, ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Many pandemic viruses emerged naturally – but there’s one that most likely came from a lab - Research provides benchmark for distinguishing natural outbreaks from scenarios involving lab leaks ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of ...