A new study led by scientists at the University of Oxford has revealed something surprising: a common virus carried by more ...

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 ...

Epstein-Barr virus, another herpesvirus that causes mono, has been linked to later development of multiple sclerosis, in which the body’s immune system attacks the protective covering of nerve cells ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that a common and usually harmless virus may positively influence ...

A new software algorithm developed at Caltech enables researchers to easily search for viruses in RNA sequence data, enabling ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual ...

Scientists in Sweden have taken an important step forward in understanding how a very common virus, called Epstein-Barr virus ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

New research zeroes in on a unique group of immune cells that could transform how we treat—and possibly prevent—severe food ...

A new study has revealed that a special group of cells in the intestines tamp down the immune responses caused by exposure to food proteins. Called 'tolerogenic dendritic cells,' these cells enable ...