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A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

Trying to understand why the common cold hits some people hard – sometimes leading to serious medical complications – but ...

Learn how the body’s earliest immune defenses can stop a common cold before symptoms appear.

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

The code and database described here will allow you to obtain a taxonomic label for your viral genome(s) based on the Unified Human Gut Virome (UHGV) taxonomy. The UHGV is a comprehensive and deeply ...

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

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...

Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...