Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats.

Global health stories including rare illnesses, climate change, hypertension, and more, with a focus on little KJ Muldoon's ...

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a ...

“We show that if you can see where a virus is evolving ahead of time, you can begin to make future-proof vaccines,” said ...

She did note, however, that thawing permafrost could re-introduce ancient pathogenic viruses that are now extinct, or where today's strains have evolved to have such a different genetic makeup ...

Although feared as agents of disease, viruses also work wonders ... A cell, of the sort assembled in great number to make up your body or mine or the body of an octopus or a primrose, contains ...

Human protection against bird flu may be easier than scientists previously thought, thanks to new findings about the core genetic makeup of the virus and one particular T cell that all of us have ...

A constant threat Bacteria and viruses that cause disease are constantly ... Underlying this evolution are changes in the genetic make-up of the pathogens. Pathogens evolve through genetic changes ...

Bacteria and viruses that cause disease are constantly ... Underlying this evolution are changes in the genetic make-up of the pathogens. Pathogens evolve through genetic changes that make them ...

The virus is able, for example ... For the same reason, your blood type, something which is determined by your genetic makeup, also plays a large role in resistance and susceptibility to different ...