The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The ...

Researchers have deciphered the process by which the influenza virus steals the cap of the host RNA to replicate.

While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

After a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu devastated southern elephant seal populations in 2023, scientists are on high alert.

European regulators advanced several new medicines, including a combined flu and COVID vaccine and new treatments for rare diseases.

Herpes simplex virus partially liquifies the tightly packed, gel-like interior of human cell nuclei to copy itself faster, a new study shows. The research centers on how the nucleus of each human cell ...

Herpes simplex virus partially liquefies the tightly packed, gel-like interior of human cell nuclei to copy itself faster, a new study shows. The research centers on how the nucleus of each human cell ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 50 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a leading cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer. While antiviral drugs ...

Fluminense and Vasco face each other this Sunday (1), at Maracanã, at 6 p.m. (Brasília time), in the second leg of the Cariocão 2026 semifinals.Having won the first leg 1-0, the Tricolor das ...

New research shows why coronavirus infection may lead to long COVID, with long-term effects on the lungs and brain, unlike influenza.

You probably don't want to think about the next pandemic. I don't. But maybe we can take some comfort in knowing scientists are preparing for it — and one such group of researchers is taking a close ...