The pandemic seems to be ending; it isn’t. The vaccine breakthroughs are key, but coronavirus variants, the nature of asymptomatic carriage and transmission, and difficulty in getting enough people ...

There's no doubt that the word "virus" is currently on everyone's mind. However, there's a lot more to this dubious, microscopic "life form" than merely being a pandemic-causing bug. This April, a ...

Apple and Google are trying to get more U.S. states to adopt their phone-based approach for tracing and curbing the spread of the coronavirus by building more of the necessary technology directly into ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a new method to treat viral infections by making traps. The team folded DNA into nano-capsules with specialized binding points ...

Researchers have discovered new RNA bacteriophages, viruses that attack bacteria, advancing understanding of virus evolution. A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and ...

A huge virus surge of a new Storm Worm variant is flooding e-mail inboxes and evading many antivirus programs. In my tests of 31 programs, only four reported a virus. Postini, an e-mail security ...

The first look at trends following most of the winter holidays shows that seasonal virus activity remains elevated and continues to rise across the United States, according to data from the US Centers ...