Dear Doctor: Everybody is talking about the coronavirus right now, but I still don't really know what a virus is. How do they work? Why don't antibiotics kill them? Dear Reader: You're far from alone ...

In the ongoing fight against viruses, a new scientific approach could bring sweeping change. Instead of targeting the virus ...

The first place to start is with the various anti-virus vendors Web sites. To a degree they’ll give you information on how the various viruses/worms work and how to spot them. Look at subscribing to ...

Bird flu can survive in certain raw milk cheeses for months—even after the aging process that’s supposed to make them ...

Dr. Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of “Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19.” This article has been updated to reflect news ...

Outbreaks of the highly contagious stomach virus are more than double what they were last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological Systems ...

After last week's rapid outbreak of Internet viruses, The Rail has been extremely careful about the attachments it opens. However, on Monday it mistakenly opened a message with the subject line, "Free ...

Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen ...

When Sean Fletcher walked into Sam Biswas' Medical and Molecular Sciences (MMSC) lab at the University of Delaware College of ...

The oncolytic virus, MEM-288 will be studied in combination with Opdivo for patients with non-small cell lung cancer that progressed on standard therapy. The next phase of a clinical trial will ...