A team at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont has stumbled onto a finding that upends a long-standing ...

Besides serving as food for certain microbes, viruses perform some helpful functions that remain poorly understood. A ciliate, a type of single-celled microbe, swims next to Sphagnum moss, amplified ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers examined the phenotypic and genetic evolution of clade 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses ...

Experiments 1 through 3 were performed with the PCR thermocycler lid closed and at a default setting of 105°C. Experiments 4 and 5 were performed with the PCR thermocycler lid open and a metal cover ...

Exposure to a virus isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. The concept of “infectious dose” suggests ways to keep ourselves safer from harm. For a pathogen to make us sick, it must overcome a lot. First ...