H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

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

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

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In the year 2025, the H5N1 avian influenza virus emerging as a major global health risk. Once it was primarily affecting ...

open image in gallery Hantavirus is a virus that spreads through the urine, droppings, or saliva of wild rodents, including deer mice, and can cause serious disease in humans (California ...

A team of researchers has identified a mutation in the KEAP1 gene in horses ... similar to a mechanism previously observed only in viruses. Horses thus rewrite genetic rules to optimize their ...

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 ...