The virus often mutates by simply deleting small pieces of its genetic code. The mutations "disguise" the virus from antibodies.

Five years on, COVID-19 reshaped US work, tech & faith. 32% still work remotely, while misinformation & political divides ...

Advances in medical sciences have reduced infectious disease mortality, but emerging pathogens pose global health threats.

Researchers review the ever-growing list of human viruses, examining their diversity, transmission pathways, and the urgent ...

Ariel Reinish grew up on the NIH campus, in a way. Her sister Shelby was 10 when she was diagnosed with von Hippel-Lindau ...

The landscape of COVID-19 mortality has evolved dramatically since the start of the pandemic. In 2023, the United States saw ...

With winter on its way in New Zealand, an immunologist is warning there could be higher levels of influenza going around in ...

Germany’s first foot and mouth disease outbreak in almost 40 years – and the EU’s first in more than a decade – sent ...

More Americans may have had bird flu without suffering any symptoms, a new study finds. That could allow the virus to mutate into something more dangerous.

A new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved from initially ...

A study published in December by Duke professor Rohit Singh and his team proposes a new computational model called antibody ...

The spike protein of the coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, binds to ACE2, a receptor on the host cells, which allows the virus to enter the cells and infect it. Binding is the first step for infection, and ...