Researchers are edging closer to a universal antiviral drug, a single medicine that could treat every virus known to man.

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Explore how the influenza virus impacts your body and immune system.

A group of volunteers spent days locked in a small hotel room with people actively infected with flu. They played games, ...

A particularly infectious subvariant of influenza is keeping emergency room numbers high and causing especially severe ...

In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers from Monash University and the Lions Eye Institute have discovered a tissue ...

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

Flu A affects both humans and animals, while flu B affects only humans. You may notice that flu A tends to appear earlier in the flu season than flu B. You can prevent the flu by getting a yearly flu ...

A rapid interferon response from nasal epithelial cells induces a cascade of responses during infection, from reduced viral ...