Dental, pharmacy and engineering faculty to engage in 4-year, $1.6 million study as part of Human Virome Program.

Influenza virus research has advanced substantially in recent decades, particularly in understanding genetic reassortment and host adaptation mechanisms ...

The rare virus has a high fatality rate and can spread through the air, research shows, though it is easier to contain than ...

Infectious disease experts have sought to reassure people that the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak poses very low risks to ...

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

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A respiratory virus that doesn’t have a vaccine or a specific treatment regimen is spreading in some parts of ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

Determining the recipe for successful work teams is big business, as a lot is at stake. Is the key having the right set of members based on their skills or personalities? Is the primary driver of team ...

Around 90% of people are infected with Epstein-Barr virus at some point in their lifetimes. For most of them, the virus causes a mild, transient illness or no symptoms at all. But for a subset of ...

Two emerging pathogens with animal origins—influenza D virus and canine coronavirus—have so far been quietly flying under the radar, but researchers warn conditions are ripe for the viruses to spread ...

Nipah is a zoonotic virus with a high mortality rate Charlotte Phillipp is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was previously an entertainment reporter at The ...

Entrepreneurship is, at its core, the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control. It’s the process of designing, launching, and running a new business, which typically starts as ...