So far, Alabama is the only place it's been discovered, although short-tailed shrews can be found across North America. However, according to the Economic Times, virologists warn that it's only a ...

Horses possess a rare genetic peculiarity. This adaptation partly explains their exceptional endurance without compromising ...

New research shows how small shifts in the molecular makeup of a virus can profoundly alter its fate. These shifts could turn ...

A virus outbreak has been the main concept for many post-apocalyptic games, but not all of them have been successful with ...

For decades, the human niche for viruses related to smallpox has remained mostly empty. Since eradicating smallpox, only rare ...

Multiple reports have surfaced about a mysterious ‘Covid-like’ virus spreading in Russia, causing high fever and, in some ...

The X-Men are Marvel’s civil rights allegory, and at some point in the early ’90s, Marvel editorial decided to throw ...

A research team has developed an advanced delivery system that transports gene-editing tools based on the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system into living cells with significantly greater efficiency than ...

"We know that the virus is only one or two mutations away from being able to cause severe disease in humans." The current risk to humans remains "very low," according to the CDC, but the virus has ...

An H5N1 bird flu mutation associated with increased infectiousness and disease severity has been found in two cats. Since the beginning of this year, more than 50 cats have been infected with H5N1 ...

The researchers found that a single mutation in the virus's spike protein was enough to prevent it from attaching to human and horse cells. The mutation, however, still allowed the virus to enter ...