News

A new study has found more than 600 different viruses residing on everyday household items like showerheads and toothbrushes. The lead researcher of the study described this number as ...
Seth Donoughe, a research scientist at SecureBio and a co-author of the paper, says that the results make him a “little ...
Dairy cows across the country are infected by the H5N1 bird flu. The virus isn’t spreading among people but scientists are on ...
In the current Corona pandemic, the SARS CoV-2 virus is killing a great many people and restricting life around the globe. But viruses also have good sides that we can use. According to the common ...
Cole Maguire, a neuroscience graduate student in Melamed’s group, first screened the SARS-CoV-2 virus for molecular mimicry. “Once we had it working, we're like, ‘Well, what if we just run it for ...
“What’s particularly bad about the measles virus is that it damages or destroys a lot of our immune cells that maintain our immune memory,” said Scott C. Weaver, director of the University ...
There are an estimated 10 31 viruses on Earth. That is to say: there may be a hundred million times more viruses on Earth than there are stars in the universe. The majority of these viruses infect ...