Adverse genetic mutations can cause harm and are due to various circumstances. "Jumping genes" are one cause of mutations, ...

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Scientists are sounding the alarm about a concerning genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu virus, recently identified in ...

SACRAMENTO, the United States, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Scientists are sounding the alarm about a concerning genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu virus, recently identified in four dairy cow herds, as ...

Photo taken on Feb. 10, 2025 shows signs of eggs sold out at a Costco store in Monterey Park, Los Angeles County, California, the United States. More U.S.

To maintain vaccine efficacy, WHO regularly updates influenza vaccine strains based on global epidemiological, virological, ...

She works on an effort called Nextstrain, which uses genome data to track viruses ... Many were guided by experiences with ...

Pigs are moderately susceptible to infection with a bovine-derived H5N1 avian influenza virus but don't spread it to other pigs, a non–peer-reviewed study published on the preprint server bioRxiv ...

They developed benchmarks for expression and splicing using RNA-seq data from a lymphoblastoid sample in the publicly available Genome in a Bottle Consortium. The team established reference ranges ...

Zydus Lifesciences on Wednesday (February 26, 2025) said it is introducing a vaccine for protection against new strain of influenza virus. “The company is introducing country’s first flu ...