Two Republican lawmakers demanded Monday that the National Institutes of Health halt more than $3 million in taxpayer funding ...

Groundbreaking flu transmission study reveals zero infections despite close contact between healthy volunteers and flu-positive students for two weeks.

Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

Plenty of people – about 1 in 3, according to some studies — feel bad for a day or two after they get a flu shot. The most ...

Planthoppers and leafhoppers not only feed on rice plants but also act as highly efficient vectors for plant viruses, causing ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

Knowable Magazine reports 2025 faced turmoil in U.S. science amid job cuts and budget slashes, yet saw advances in gene ...

A drug once designed for dengue virus, then quietly abandoned by industry, is suddenly back in the spotlight, and it may be ...

Within this dinoflagellate plankton (Citharistes regius) is a tiny microbe that acts more like a virus than a cell. Credit: Takuro Nakayama/University of Tsukuba In the dim waters off the Japanese ...

HAZLETON — Grants from the estate of Pasco L. Schiavo totaling $220,000 will help display murals showing the story of Hazleton, develop hands-on science projects for middle school students and ...

They’re gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, and worth billions. No, not Hollywood starlets and hunks and the stars of K-Pop. Well, OK, yes – they are gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, ...

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...