Researchers at Umeå University have identified two human cell proteins, NUP98 and NUP153, that play a crucial role in how ...

New research defines RSV viral shedding timelines, showing a short infectious window and key immune responses to guide ...

Half of Americans are suffering from an incurable disease that causes painful - and embarrassing - blisters and sores around the mouth. About 122million people have herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), the ...

Researchers at Harvard University and Jiangsu University developed a technique for not only identifying infected cells, but also tracking the infection over time as the cells developed. They published ...

By age 2, nearly all children in a US birth cohort had contracted an enteric viral infection, most of which presented ...

Despite early optimism, recent research suggests that increasing ventilation, in places like schools, might not be the silver bullet we imagined it to be in limiting airborne virus transmission. While ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and help ...

Most infectious disease researchers are familiar with the story of how Dr. John Snow tracked a devastating cholera outbreak in London in 1854. By marking the houses impacted by cholera on a map, he ...

Bacterial and viral acute sinus infections typically display similar symptoms. The duration of the infection can help determine if it is viral or bacterial. Many viruses, such as the ones that cause ...