The researchers found thousands of species not previously documented.

Britt Glaunsinger discusses how viruses steal from their hosts to take over cellular processes and promote their own survival.

Two viruses from dogs and pigs were isolated from human patients, but neither was proven to cause severe disease or to transmit to other people.

Explore how microbes shape health, disease, and the world beyond

Paul Thomas from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will discuss how he used single cell and spatial transcriptomics to discover the underlying mechanism of an inflammatory immune response in the lungs.

A preprint casts doubt on vaccine effectiveness in light of certain mutations in the 501Y.V2 variant that emerged from South Africa.

Bat species use different strategies to dampen immune activation in response to viruses.

The rare complication known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) differs from both Kawasaki disease and severe adult cases of COVID-19, a study finds.

Researchers Jason Gill and Paul Turner will discuss their work on bacteriophage therapy to treat drug resistant bacterial infections.

Face coverings prevent wearers from spreading pathogens, and might also limit the number of viral particles that enter the body, staving off severe infection, including COVID-19, research indicates.

The host transcriptional signature elicited by the coronavirus appears to be less robust and lacks the induction of key antiviral genes.

Federal agencies, academic institutions, and industrial partners are joining forces to combat COVID-19 using artificial intelligence.

In rare instances, the live virus in oral polio vaccines can mutate and become infectious, causing new outbreaks.

The redondoviruses, named for their circular DNA, inhabit the human respiratory tract and may be linked to disease.

The same Winnipeg lab that sent Ebola and Henipah viruses to Beijing recently removed a number of researchers for an “administrative issue.”

Mice exposed to heat wave temperatures ate less and showed weakened immune responses to the virus.

Tiny insects carry the tomato spotted wilt virus, which causes infected plants to develop discolored ring-shape blotches.

Using his expertise in microbiology and bioinformatics, he is bringing a new understanding to microbial immune systems.

Dampening the immune response to stay up in the air may have helped bats become tolerant to viral infections.