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Express News Service HYDERABAD: Neglecting any health issues can be dangerous, and viral infections are becoming increasingly challenging to manage. Post-infection…

How are environmental changes, loss of biodiversity, and the spread of pathogens connected? The answer is a puzzle. Researchers from Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now described…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Updated COVID-19 vaccines are coming soon, just in time to pair them with flu shots.…

Viruses, like movie villains, operate in one of two ways: chill or kill. They can lay low, quietly infiltrating the body's defenses, or go on the attack, exploding out of hiding and firing…

A sixth person, dubbed the “Geneva patient,” may be free of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant intended to treat another disease—his cancer. The man, who was diagnosed with HIV in…

Gideon Lichfield: OK, but let me play the synthetic biology devil's advocate for a second.Lauren Goode: OK, OK.Gideon Lichfield: When you have kids, you are throwing the genetic dice, you…

An interdisciplinary research team from Bochum, Duisburg and Zurich has developed a new approach to construct modular optical sensors which are capable of detecting viruses and bacteria. For…

About one in two women are affected by cystitis during her lifetime, and many suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections. Bladder infections are not only painful and potentially…

Self-sustained levitation of millimeter-sized droplets was recently discovered by researchers at Tyumen State University, in Russia, during an experiment to select combinations of immiscible…

University of Pittsburgh researchers have shown for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma, initiates DNA…