The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

Our researchers are developing fast and portable virus sequencing techniques to track viruses in areas with limited medical ...

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Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

A virus that can cause a polio-like illness among children has been found in Bay Area wastewater as influenza cases spike.

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A comprehensive map of gene regulation in chickens has been developed, detailing genetic and epigenetic data from over 100 breeds. This atlas provides insights ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

The map could be a resource for finding resistance to H5N1 influenza and other diseases. (UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) An international team of researchers led by ...

Apr. 17, 2025 — A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as ...

The mammalian brain is known to produce mental representations of the spatial environment, known as cognitive maps, that help ...