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Streptococcus Group A affects close to 20% of U.S. children, according to Dr. Joshua Osowicki, senior research fellow at the ...

A new software algorithm developed at Caltech enables researchers to easily search for viruses in RNA sequence data, enabling ...

According to the World Health Organization, infections in humans can cause severe disease with a high mortality rate.

The first giant virus to be identified, called Mimivirus (short for microbe mimicking virus ), was discovered in 2003 inside ...

Too easily overlooked are non-influenza, non-COVID viruses and bacteria that are burgeoning and spreading unchecked — both in ...

A team of researchers has made a discovery in fruit flies that could change the way we understand brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in humans. The scientists found that Eato -- a ...

The findings could serve as the basis for detecting disease-associated variants in a range of common diseases. The findings were published online today by the American Journal of Human Genetics.

Virginia Tech researchers discovered six new rodent carriers of hantavirus and identified U.S. hotspots, highlighting the ...

Scientists found a compound that appears to counter common mutations behind POLG-related diseases, rare conditions that harm ...

"When sequencing RNA from a human lung sample ... The vast majority of viruses that cause common infectious diseases are RNA viruses (those that use RNA, not DNA, as their genetic material ...

Citing the virus's capacity to infect both humans and animals ... the CDC reports that H5 bird flu is common in wild birds around the world and has recently been linked to multiple human cases ...