Microbiologists Patrick Moreira and Purificación López-García, together with virologists Arturo Ludmir and Lynn Enquist, are ...

Finding rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, in preserved medical specimens and analysing their RNA genome could let us ...

Matt Shumer’s essay, "Something Big Is Happening," serves as a stark "weather report" from the AI frontlines. Comparing the current moment to the deceptive calm of February 2020, Schumer warns about ...

Like other living creatures, humans have been shaped by evolution. Over time, we have developed – and continue to develop – traits that help us survive.

ByteDance has suspended Seedance 2.0 photo-to voice feature after the days of the AI video generation model’s release that took the internet by storm. Seedance 2.0 is capable of creating ...

As population immunity continues to grow, understanding how immune responses influence both disease outcomes and viral evolution has become increasingly important.

Doctors are alarmed as H3N2 influenza cases surge earlier than typical seasonal peaks, driven by erratic weather, transitional immunity gaps, and environmental triggers.

The effectiveness of this season’s flu vaccine in Canada is 40% against medically attended infection with influenza A (H3N2) ...

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

Viruses mutated aboard the ISS, and got better at hunting superbugs. Space may be the unlikeliest lab in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...