For millions of people living with HIV, a daily regimen of medications is a lifelong necessity. If they stop taking the drugs—commonly referred to as antiretroviral therapy—the virus usually rushes ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is estimated to have killed at least about 52,000 seals and sea lions across South America, based on published scientific tallies of the 2023 outbreak and its ...

The virus is the human polyomavirus 2, commonly called either the JC virus or John Cunningham virus, named after the poor ...

Cases of a specific respiratory virus are spiking in several states across the U.S. right now. In California, concentrations of HMPV were high in San Francisco, Sacramento, Napa and several other ...

A new environmentally friendly waste management approach that uses black soldier fly larvae has been developed by a team from China’s Fudan University. Typically, waste from both people and animals is ...

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the future of gene editing.

Experts say early symptoms in humans can be misleading, but once they begin, the infection is often deadly within weeks ...

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve ...

A research team led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine scientists has developed a new strategy to engineer immune cells that dramatically prolongs their effectiveness after being infused into ...

Herpes simplex virus partially liquifies the tightly packed, gel-like interior of human cell nuclei to copy itself faster, a new study shows.

A gene borrowed from the naked mole rat, an animal famous for extraordinary longevity and disease resistance, helped mice live a little longer and stay healthier, pointing to a surprising biological ...

Human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, is circulating in California. Learn what it is, symptoms, and how to prevent it.