Dear Doctor: Everybody is talking about the coronavirus right now, but I still don't really know what a virus is. How do they work? Why don't antibiotics kill them? Dear Reader: You're far from alone ...

The first place to start is with the various anti-virus vendors Web sites. To a degree they’ll give you information on how the various viruses/worms work and how to spot them. Look at subscribing to ...

Year-to-year effectiveness fluctuates based on how well vaccines match circulating strains, ranging from 20% to 30% in poor-match years to over 60% when the match is good. Despite this variability, ...

Outbreaks of the highly contagious stomach virus are more than double what they were last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...

After last week's rapid outbreak of Internet viruses, The Rail has been extremely careful about the attachments it opens. However, on Monday it mistakenly opened a message with the subject line, "Free ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological Systems ...

Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen ...

When Sean Fletcher walked into Sam Biswas' Medical and Molecular Sciences (MMSC) lab at the University of Delaware College of Health Sciences during the summer of his first year, he had no research or ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological ...

Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories. Yet, more than five decades after the discovery of the Marburg virus and ...