The developing avian influenza panzootic and the growing possibility of a pandemic bring to the fore the existential ...

STC-15, an investigational RNA methyltransferase inhibitor, has shown promising clinical activity and an encouraging safety ...

A live virus vaccine contains a live, weakened (attenuated) virus that helps your body develop an immune response without you developing symptoms of the disease it is intended to prevent. Examples ...

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

It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile ...

Obelisks are simpler than viruses, consisting of a stretched circular molecule with about a thousand letters of RNA. They are infectious agents that appear to colonize some bacteria in the mouths and ...

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

A new method can test the activity of thousands of RNA enzymes, called ribozymes, in a single experiment. The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on ...

Researchers discovered that severe COVID infection causes the body to produce a special type of monocyte with anti-cancer ...

Few would have thought that the COVID pandemic would have a silver lining, but scientists in Chicago may just have found one.

Scientists have long been trying to tease apart hepatitis A virus, to understand its inner workings and how it functions in the human body. Infectious disease researchers have discovered that a little ...