The first giant virus to be identified, called Mimivirus (short for microbe mimicking virus ), was discovered in 2003 inside ...

Several measures can be adopted to avoid and combat the flu. However, it is important to note that viruses, like influenza, frequently change its structure to evade the immune system, resulting in new ...

A team of scientists has uncovered the remarkable potential of a human antibody, mAb 3A6, in fighting Ebola virus infections.

A team of biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen viable treatments for diseases caused by zoonotic pathogens that can jump from animal hosts to ...

A team at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes developed new drug candidates that show great promise against the virus that causes ...

Finland's first giant virus, Jyvaskylavirus, shows these viruses are more widespread than thought and play key roles in ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have made a remarkable discovery: the first giant virus ever isolated ...

Jyvaskylavirus is detailed in a study recently published in eLife, and named for Jyväskylä, the Finnish city where it was ...

Researchers have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates ...

Public health officials this week confirmed two more measles cases in Colorado, including one person who didn’t travel, raising fears the highly contagious virus could already be spreading ...

A new large-scale study conducted by the Cleveland Clinic on the effectiveness of the 2024–2025 influenza vaccine shows that those who took the shot had a 27 percent higher risk of infection compared ...

The WVSSAC Board of Control approved a proposal for high schools to be classified based on the total enrollment figures of grades 9-12, from the West Virginia Department of Education. This measure ...