The first giant virus to be identified, called Mimivirus (short for microbe mimicking virus ), was discovered in 2003 inside ...

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.

Experiments in mice infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus revealed that the immune cell class in question, called nerve and ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare immune cell type in the lungs, called NAMs, plays a crucial role in surviving COVID-19 ...

A team at UC San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes has developed new drug candidates that show great promise against the ...

Mpox, previously called monkeypox, is a rare disease. Part of the same family as the virus that causes smallpox, it is caused by a type of virus typically found in West and Central Africa. It is ...

The Trump administration has replaced two major federal websites for COVID information with a new page that promotes the theory that the virus came from a lab in China.

Mpox particles were found in routine wastewater tests in North Carolina. The particles were found in samples collected on ...

The federal website Covid.gov, which previously linked to information about vaccines, testing and treatment, now redirects to ...

The White House recently launched a web page entitled: "Lab Leak. The True Origins of COVID-19" (Whitehouse.gov/Screenshot by ...

The White House on Friday morning launched a new website championing the theory that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was ...