Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...

A surprising flu experiment shows that good airflow and fewer coughs can stop the virus from spreading, even up close.

Chinese researchers did conduct an experiment using a coronavirus that they found had 100% lethality in mice. However, the scientists did not "create" the virus, and it did not infect any humans.

House Republicans are pressing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for answers after the agency funded research experiments they say could result in a "supercharged" monkeypox virus. In a letter ...

It should be hard — exceedingly hard — to obtain the synthetic DNA needed to recreate the virus that caused the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic without authorization. But my lab found that it’s ...

NEW YORK – Doctors may one day be able to control a patient’s HIV infection in a new way: injecting swarms of germ-fighting antibodies, two new studies suggest. In monkeys, that strategy sharply ...

The young scientist, normally calm and measured, seemed on edge when he stopped by his boss's office. "You are not going to believe this one," he told Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical ...

LONDON -- Scientists are embarking on a series of experiments with the bird flu virus ravaging Asian poultry to see how dangerous it would be if it adapted to humans, the chief influenza expert at the ...

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

A preprint from a research team based mainly at the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories described how the team had created a new hybrid Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by ...

Working in a laboratory in Paris, scientists gave a close relative of the Covid virus the chance to evolve to be more like its cousin. By Carl Zimmer In mid-2020, a team of scientists catching bats in ...