Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

As vital as vaccines are, they can be frustratingly selective about their targets. Scientists from institutions across the US ...

The trial will involve immunising a small group of turkeys against H5N1 bird flu under the supervision of DEFRA ...

The gutting of HIV drug programs isn't just bad policy; it threatens a repeat of history's deadliest mistake, writes .

In experiments, black soldier fly larvae ate spoiled food, sewage sludge or livestock manure, and removed most human-pathogenic viruses.

During her confirmation hearing to become surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means had various back-and-forths with senators, who ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

There’s been an increase in hospitalisations and in wastewater detections, and it’s expected to last another month or two.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, is working to hire a researcher and friend who wants the agency to add new warnings to antidepressants ...

The Department of Disease Control has launched an urgent investigation into a chickenpox outbreak at two faculties at ...

HeLa cells are the most famous human cells in science. Discover how cervical cancer, HPV proteins, and bioethics shaped one ...

A study by scientists from Johns Hopkins University has shown that microbes trapped in asteroid debris can migrate to other planets, including Earth, and survive. This was reported on March 3 by the ...