At the time, this was quite a novel idea. Flu and COVID evolution do differ in important ways, but chronic COVID infections, too, are now being examined as harbingers of the future.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a lesson in speed — the speed at which a novel virus among humans can spread, the speed at which it can rack up fatalities and cripple economies, the speed at ...

Credit: Made with elements from Canva by Emma Gometz In the world of emerging infectious diseases, one of the looming threats comes from the so-called zoonotic diseases—pathogens that somehow make the ...

My 2015 study on virus evolution went viral among anti-vaxxers — but they don't understand it Vaccines against COVID-19 are the safest — and fastest — way to prevent the spread of variants ...

Second, evolution-proof vaccines induce immune responses that attack several different parts of the microbe at the same time. It is easy for a single part of the virus to mutate and escape being ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are investigating the complex relationships between the spread of the HIV virus in a population (epidemiology) and the actual, rapid evolution of the ...

Viruses are the most diverse and abundant biological entities: they are widely known, fast-evolving, and have adapted to be able to infect all life forms. Despite this, their origin and ...

Oxford University Press is pleased to announce that one of its journals, Virus Evolution, has won the 2017 PROSE Award for the Best New Journal in the Science, Technology, and Medicine category ...