Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

DAR ES SALAAM, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian health authorities on Thursday declared the end of the country's second Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak after recording no new cases for 42 days ...

Tanzania has officially declared the end of an outbreak of Marburg virus disease that hit the northwestern Kagera region in January. But officials are still bracing for the ongoing threat of Mpox.

This was an alarming start to the idea of gene de-extinction. As we know from movies like The Thing, digging up frozen creatures from the ice is a bad idea. Many scientists felt that recovering the ...

Background Enterically transmitted hepatitis viruses, such as hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV), remain notable threats to public health. However, stable and reliable animal models ...

Compared with the live-attenuated vaccine, the IRVV shows a good safety profile in vivo, as evidenced by neither virus mutation nor virulence reversion occurring in IRVV-vaccinated animals. A chimeric ...

Dr. Lipkin and Dr. Baric are experts on viruses, including coronaviruses. There’s a central question that many scientists face: How can scientific discoveries drive humanity’s progress without ...

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