NIH has launched a human trial for LASSARAB, a dual-purpose vaccine targeting Lassa fever and rabies. Early animal studies ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Since it was first identified in 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) says there have been a total of 2,618 confirmed ...

Rabies is one of the oldest communicable diseases known to humans and is almost always fatal, with very few cases of ...

Discovered in the state of Ceará, Brazil, the novel coronavirus shares similarities with the virus responsible for Middle ...

A collaboration between researchers in the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Ceará and colleagues affiliated with Hong Kong ...

Compared with the live-attenuated vaccine, the IRVV shows a good safety profile in vivo, as evidenced by neither virus mutation nor virulence reversion occurring in IRVV-vaccinated animals. A chimeric ...

The National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, College of Chemistry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China ...

Police Scotland is facing calls to review procedures for recording ethnicity when collecting DNA or other biometric data following an arrest. Dr Brian Plastow, the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner, ...