Not that scientists even agree on whether viruses are alive or not. There's so much we don't know, including just what they ...

A new study reveals the biological secret to the Zika virus's infectious success: Zika uses host cells' own "self-care" ...

In the current study, we used a combination of structural and functional data to determine regions of Ebola virus (EBOV) VP35 (eVP35) to target for aptamer selection using SELEX. Select aptamers, ...

NPR interviews Maria Van Kherkove, the infectious disease epidemiologist who is a leader in the World Health Organization.

Lessons learnt from responding to Ebola outbreaks in Africa (2014–2016 and 2018–2020) can strengthen community engagement to enhance the community ownership of the COVID-19 pandemic response. We ...

In this paper I argue that we can use the recent response to Ebola as an example of a major failure of the global community in three ways. First, the focus has been on the treatment of individuals ...

Researchers are zeroing in on the Achilles’ heel of pathogens that cause Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. The efforts of a research team from Bochum and Würzburg give hope ...

The executive order, signed on 5 May, defines dangerous gain-of-function research as studies on infectious pathogens or toxins that have the potential to make them more deadly or transmissible.

By Carl Zimmer and Emily Anthes President Trump signed an executive order on Monday evening to further restrict experiments on pathogens and toxins that could make them more harmful. For over a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A mass spectrometry-based method enables identification of bacterial pathogens within minutes by detecting their specific metabolic products in clinical samples ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Mark Kortepeter covers infectious disease and public health topics ...