Taxonomy — classifying viruses into genus, species and so forth — has the power to affect public health For the first time, ...

“Given that some lactating cows’ “steal milk” through self-nursing or mutual-nursing, they speculated that “mouth-to-teat” ...

This is the first time we’ve had access to an influenza genome from the 1918–1920 pandemic in Switzerland. It opens up new insights into the dynamics of how the virus adapt ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

Warming trends across North America have helped establish West Nile virus (WNV) as an endemic disease in New York state, and ...

Black cats may be considered bad luck in many Western societies, however, one such sooty feline has brought good fortune to a ...