The study, published in the journal Cell, focused on the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the ...

Chinese researchers have unveiled a crucial mutation in the Ebola virus that significantly enhanced its infectivity during a ...

The WHO said there was no evidence of increased human-to-human transmission so far, adding that India had the capacity to ...

The probability of mutation of the Nipah virus in the direction of increasing its contagiousness is currently extremely low.

Lenacapavir (LEN) is an antiviral medication used to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS and was first approved for individuals with ...

Chinese scientists studying the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in Congo found a mutation, GP-V75A, that made the virus spread ...

Health Minister Mark Butler says Australia is "seriously" monitoring an outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India.

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a promising gene-editing therapy that directly corrects a genetic mutation responsible ...

Indian authorities confirm containment of the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal, easing global fears but leaving ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless "microgravity" conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

"Microgravity pushed evolution into corners of the phage we still don't fully understand" ...