A common plant virus awakens the immune system to fight cancer—and it’s grown using sunlight, soil, and science.

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant ...

Zoonoses—diseases that spread from animals to humans—began to gain prevalence some 6,500 years ago with the rise of animal husbandry, a new study suggests ...

The venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering has publicly launched the start-up Terrana Biosciences, which is using RNA to program plants to resist pests and disease. With a $50 million initial ...

A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may disrupt how carbon and nutrients are recycled in the ocean, potentially ...

Stanislaus County, CA, confirms 2025’s first human West Nile Virus case. Learn how to prevent infection, protect your family, and reduce mosquito breeding.

On Thursday, the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District said they found mosquitoes in Anoka and Carver counties with West Nile virus.

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one complicate matters.

Marburg Virus MARV is a highly pathogenic single-stranded RNA virus that was first identified during outbreaks in Germany and Serbia in 1967 ...

Person dies from tick-borne virus in Bayfield County The patient was one of three Powassan virus cases reported in Wisconsin so far this year, all of which required hospitalization.

Methodology In this study, researchers established an RNA codon expansion (RCE) platform to assign pseudouridine (Ψ)-modified RNA codons (ΨCodons: ΨGA, ΨAA, ΨAG) as novel "blank" codons for ...

Four European travel hotspots have experienced an outbreak of the liver infection hepatitis A, leaving thousands sickened and nine dead.