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 ...

Picture this: a computer sitting in a lab, essentially “thinking up” brand new forms of life from scratch. That’s exactly what just happened at Stanford and the Arc Institute, where researchers used ...

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 ...

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

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 ...

UD Professor Jodi Hadden-Perilla to use NSF Award for virus studies, assistive technology for the blind, crochet for all Viruses are a strange lot indeed. They possess baffling adaptive abilities, ...

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 ...

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

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the ...