PESCADERO — Every year from late December through March, scientists from the Beltran and Costa labs at UC Santa Cruz set out ...

Stanford Medicine researchers reported this week that an intranasal vaccine formula protected mice against a striking range ...

Maryland is one of several states reporting cases of the infectious disease mumps, suggesting the return of diseases—like measles—that vaccines protect against ...

Herpes simplex virus partially liquifies the tightly packed, gel-like interior of human cell nuclei to copy itself faster, a new study shows.

New research shows that deltaviruses can sneak into cells by hitchhiking inside other viruses, highlighting a previously ...

Researchers engineer CAR-astrocytes to target and remove amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s, showing a 50% reduction in brain ...

A severe, Ebola-like illness native to West Afria is an unrecognized threat with global implications—and imported cases have already been detected in the U.S.—experts have warned. The researchers have ...

Microplastics are widely recognized as pollutants in oceans and waterways, but scientists are increasingly discovering that ...

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

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 ...

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