Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic ...
Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...
A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from ...
Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, ...
Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier ...
Hopefully, you have already received your seasonal flu vaccine this year. These shots are highly effective at preventing illness, ultimately lowering the spread of the virus throughout the population.
A genome-wide evolutionary analysis of several viruses found no signs of pre-spillover adaptation. Instead, detectable ...
Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...
Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the warning of a new paper in the journal Science Advances, which concluded that ...