Baylor wins 2024 STAT Madness with ‘smoke alarm’ for viral disease outbreaks
It began with injecting monkeys with sewage to see if they developed polio. Building off…
Category: virology
Don’t ignore potential microbial causes of Alzheimer’s and other chronic diseases, researchers say
SAN FRANCISCO — On a day when pharma giant Eli Lilly announced positive results from…
Opinion: In a world of synthetic biology, publishing virus DNA sequences may mean perishing
The wholly synthetic mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 saved nearly 20 million lives in just their…
Sherif Zaki, a legendary disease detective at CDC, dies at 65
Sherif Zaki, a legendary disease detective at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who…
A lucky few seem ‘resistant’ to Covid-19. Scientists want to know why
Her husband collapsed just before reaching the top of the stairs in their small one-bedroom…
Viral evolution 101: Why the coronavirus has changed as it has, and what it means going forward
It’s impossible to say how the coronavirus will continue to evolve. Those changes, after all,…
A pandemic upside: The flu virus became less diverse, simplifying the task of making flu shots
In the eight years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the subtypes of…
Persistent symptoms after viral illnesses such as Covid-19 are common, but a challenge to study
From 2014 to 2018, DePaul University psychologist Leonard Jason and colleagues collected personal information and…
‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells
A deep dive into how the new coronavirus infects cells has found that it orchestrates…
A fitting memorial: Superbug treatment named for the patient who inspired its discovery
Even for the most elite of bacteria-killers, these superbugs were a challenge. They’d delayed Mallory…
Trump: Despite U.S. case, China virus is ‘under control’
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday downplayed concerns surrounding an infectious disease outbreak in China…
Chinese health officials can’t rule out person-to-person spread of new virus
BEIJING — The possibility that a new virus in central China could spread between humans…
Experts search for answers in limited information about mystery pneumonia outbreak in China
The mysterious and growing cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan…