The findings show how the H5N1 bird flu virus is evolving in livestock and what that may mean for human health.

This month’s story comes from the Bloom lab using their signature deep mutational scanning technique to identify mutations in the surface protein of Lassa virus -called glycoprotein- that escape ...

A study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reports a major advance in understanding how interactions ...

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last ...

The wave-shaped chart Ratul Chowdhury pulls up on a computer monitor in his office captures the evolutionary cat-and-mouse ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with colleagues in the field, have developed an innovative antibody platform aimed at tackling one of the greatest ...

The patient's brother unknowingly carried a homozygous mutation that inhibits HIV infections, leading to what doctors call ...

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (pink) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (green), isolated from a patient sample. (National Institute of Allergy and ...

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 ...

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A graduate student at Fred Hutch Cancer Center has produced a near real-time picture of how well the human immune system is ...