Remember the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009? Well, H5N1 bird flu could be next - H5N1 bird flu has infected more than 50 ...

The H5N1 virus that infected a Canadian teen appears not to have spread, but it shows signs of mutation that makes flu ...

Smoking, being exposed to toxic chemicals or radiation, and carrying mutations in certain genes are some of the best-known risk factors for cancer. But another cause of cancer isn't discussed as ...

Yes and no. We probably all realize that viruses reproduce in some way. We can become infected with a small number of virus particles — by inhaling particles expelled when another person coughs ...

Five methods are used to estimate the abundance of viruses in aquatic samples: plaque assays (PAs); most-probable-number assays (MPNs); transmission electron microscopy (TEM); epifluorescence ...

But that would look strange, so instead the code is delivered steganographically by spreading the bits of the characters that represent the code among the least-significant bits in either a JPG or ...

A new deep learning model, LucaProt, has detected over 251,000 new RNA virus species from global ecosystems ... Pie size is positively correlated to the number of samples (log10).

Before viruses can infect cells, they must first get to them, often by traversing layers of the body’s protective mucus. Understanding how evolution optimised the influenza A virus for this ...

Since case and testing numbers have become increasingly unreliable measures of the virus’ prevalence in a community, state officials now use COVID-19 hospitalizations as a key indicator.

He believes the detection of traces of old virus could partly explain why the number of cases is rising while hospital admissions remain stable. The University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence ...

R is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to, on average. Measles has an R number of 15 in populations without immunity. That means, on average, one person will ...