When people talk about the coronavirus, they sometimes describe this invisible entity as if it has a personality and even a ...

A new artificial intelligence tool could aid in limiting or even prevent pandemics by identifying animal species that may ...

FEW of us had heard of the Chinese city of Wuhan when the world was first paralysed by Covid-19 five years ago. Today, the sprawling metropolis is synonymous with the ­pandemic that claimed ...

Perhaps all viruses arose via a mechanism yet to be uncovered. Today's basic research in fields like microbiology, genomics, and structural biology may provide us with answers to this basic question.

Knowledge-building extension: Use the Biology of SARS-CoV-2 resource from HHMI BioInteractive, including four animations about the structure, replication, evolution, and treatment of the virus, along ...

A new artificial intelligence tool could aid in limiting or even prevent pandemics by identifying animal species that may harbor and spread viruses capable of infecting humans. The machine learning ...

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

By leveraging synthetic genomics, researchers can rapidly develop reverse genetics tools for these and new emerging viruses, ...

Washington State University researchers have developed a machine learning model that could help prevent pandemics by ...

These have become household terms since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, but the microscopic size of the virus means that most people are unfamiliar with what the infection process actually ...