Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were ...

Big cats have always captured the imagination of humans with their majestic presence and sheer power. However, when these already magnificent creatures exhibit rare color mutations, they become even ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

In collaboration with a foundation that breeds service dogs for the visually impaired, researchers at the School of ...

A vaccine's ability to generate long-lasting, high-affinity antibodies hinges on a delicate balance. Upon exposure to a ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? I n March 2009, ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...