A new review synthesises evidence that specific mutations in the hepatitis E virus ORF1 polyprotein alter viral replication ...

Researchers have developed EVE-Vax, a computational design tool that creates synthetic SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins mimicking future immune-evading variants. These designed proteins enable early ...

Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) are among the most promising new treatments for HIV, offering the potential to forego traditional daily doses of antiretroviral drugs. In one recent clinical ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...

In people with severely compromised immune systems, JC polyomavirus can trigger an untreatable, often fatal brain disease. An international research team has identified how virus mutations can ...

Scientists have developed an innovative antibody platform aimed at tackling one of the greatest challenges in treating rapidly evolving viruses like SARS-CoV-2: their ability to mutate and evade ...

When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way. Variants of influenza and SARS‑CoV‑2 can slip past vaccines and antibody drugs before scientists fully understand what has changed. A ...

Helen Branswell covered issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. The genetic sequence of the H5N1 bird flu virus that ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

A study of 100 samples from FIP-suspected cats found feline coronavirus RNA in 33 percent of blood, 78 percent of effusion ...

An electronic 96-channel pipette was one of the tools used to scale up and allow the teamto perform over 7,000 parallel experiments that uncovered more than 100 bNAb escapemutations across 15 viral ...

I LEARNED a lot about pandemics and epidemics during Covid-19 as it was the first real epidemic that affected me, and I assume most of us directly. I wasn’t in Hong Kong during SARS and other ...