A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

Sugar coatings aren't only for candies; they also help viruses, like the ones that cause COVID-19, hide from their hosts' immune system.

A recent study has revealed that a single genetic change in a strain of the highly pathogenic H5 influenza virus could ...

Moscow said there is "no evidence of a new or unidentified virus" as viral rumors spread on Russian social media.

"We know that the virus is only one or two mutations away from being able to cause severe disease in humans." The current risk to humans remains "very low," according to the CDC, but the virus has ...

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The researchers found that a single mutation in the virus's spike protein was enough to prevent it from attaching to human and horse cells. The mutation, however, still allowed the virus to enter ...

Parcells identified mutations in this gene that correlated with the virulence level of the virus encoding it in work published in 2004. About the same time, it was discovered that the use of another ...