A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.

Experiments in mice infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus revealed that the immune cell class in question, called nerve and ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare immune cell type in the lungs, called NAMs, plays a crucial role in surviving COVID-19 ...

A trial of the influenza antiviral baloxavir suggests that the drug could be used as post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent ...

From egg prices to pet food recalls – and now, confirmation that another strain of bird flu has infected a large commercial ...

Two major studies from Harvard and MIT uncover a surprising link between the immune system and the brain, revealing how ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...

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

The U.S. is experiencing an outbreak of measles and is on track to have the most whooping cough cases since 1948; these ...

RNA vaccines train the immune system in a similar way to traditional vaccines, but they use a different strategy to get there.