RNA viruses pose significant challenges to public health due to their high mutation rates and diverse mechanisms of infection which allow them to rapidly adapt to new hosts and evade therapeutic ...

Emergence and spread of H5N1 virus clade 2.3.4.4b across continents, infecting marine mammals and raising concerns about milk ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration has just approved the first-ever clinical trial that uses CRISPR-Cas13 RNA ...

New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. A study led by ...

RNA from the COVID-19 infection in patients with certain metastatic cancers may be associated with tumor shrinkage, but more ...

Our cells need to be able to recognize potential invaders as a threat, the key function of the body's innate immune system.

Scientists have identified more than 160,000 ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus species, with the help of artificial intelligence, in what is perhaps the largest discovery of virus species. A report on the ...

"It's incredible, and a big surprise, that the same infection that caused so much devastation can help create a ...