A 2022 survey in Yunnan found 17 HIV-1 genotypes and 11.4% pretreatment drug resistance, with NNRTI resistance-associated ...

Researchers have developed EVE-Vax, a computational design tool that creates synthetic SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins mimicking future immune-evading variants. These designed proteins enable early ...

Flu season is picking up months ahead of schedule with a mutated virus spreading in some parts of the United States.

Viruses evolve quickly mainly because of how they replicate and mutate. Unlike cells, viruses must invade a host cell and ...

Helen Branswell covered issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. The genetic sequence of the H5N1 bird flu virus that ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...

Scientists have developed an innovative antibody platform aimed at tackling one of the greatest challenges in treating rapidly evolving viruses like SARS-CoV-2: their ability to mutate and evade ...

When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way. Variants of influenza and SARS‑CoV‑2 can slip past vaccines and antibody drugs before scientists fully understand what has changed. A ...

An electronic 96-channel pipette was one of the tools used to scale up and allow the teamto perform over 7,000 parallel experiments that uncovered more than 100 bNAb escapemutations across 15 viral ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

I LEARNED a lot about pandemics and epidemics during Covid-19 as it was the first real epidemic that affected me, and I assume most of us directly. I wasn’t in Hong Kong during SARS and other ...