Cas9, scientists reconstitute live African swine fever virus from synthetic genomes, accelerating vaccine development for ...

As scientists, we often think we understand a virus—its structure, its tricks, the way it moves through the body. But every ...

Morphology is the study of the form and structure of organisms, including their physical characteristics such as shape, size ...

It's been five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. As SARS-CoV-2 shifts to endemic status, questions about ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

Chinese scientists have developed LEDs that are just 90 nanometers wide using perovskite, revolutionizing high-resolution ...

Researchers have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The virus can cause fatal encephalitis in humans. Disease outbreaks and ...

"In the same way that emotions were once judged too vague for scientific study, but now have thriving fields, we hope that the study of spiritual experience follows suit" -(David Yaden & Andrew ...

The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the avian influenza virus ...

Cancer cells have an insatiable appetite for energy as they multiply more rapidly than normal cells. Greedy cancer cells hijack various cellular functions to find and exploit energy and other ...

Some 2.5 million years ago, viruses in Lake Tanganyika experienced an unexplained explosion in diversity. A new study analyzing iron-60 found in the lakebed suggests that the explosion of a ...