New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

A Brazilian research team has eliminated HIV from a patient’s body for 78 consecutive weeks using only medications, without ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A lot has been written about viruses infecting cell phones. It's a timely topic, because viruses for smartphones are starting to gain ...

A common type of human papillomavirus (HPV) could be more dangerous than we thought. The virus, known as beta-HPV, was thought in rare cases to contribute to skin cancer by worsening UV damage, but a ...

Why do immune cells that are supposed to eliminate viruses suddenly turn against our own body? There are instances where killer T cells—which are meant to precisely remove virus-infected ...

An innovative method known as ONCOTECH has been developed by researchers to physically attach oncolytic adenoviruses to T-cell surfaces through the interaction of antigens and receptors. To accomplish ...

A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...

The devastating retrovirus HTLV-1 has eluded scientists for decades. Overcoming chronic funding and other challenges, ...

Bacteria-killing viruses built from scratch in a University of Pittsburgh lab could be a breakthrough in the battle against ...

Researchers discovered how human astroviruses bind to a receptor on human cells at a molecular level, which could inform new ...

The finding could lead to the development of better drugs for infections like the flu, autoimmune diseases and more.

A bird flu virus that has often been ignored because it mostly causes minor disease in birds has the potential to cause a ...