The SIRSVIDE model developed by Professor Jian Lu's research group provides a comprehensive framework for studying viral epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics. The simulation results reveal that ...

Understanding the mutation and evolution of viruses (such as SARS-CoV-2) is crucial for effective public health management and response. Traditional epidemiological models often assume that viral ...

The influenza (flu) virus is constantly undergoing a process of evolution and adaptation through acquiring new mutations. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have added a new layer of ...

Junior Associate Professor Kazuo Takayama (Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation) and a collaborative team of researchers in Japan recently characterized SARS-CoV-2 collected from a persistent ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that HIV populations in people with higher viral loads also have higher rates of viral recombination. In effect, the more HIV in the blood, the ...

The study, published in the Biophysical Journal, was led by a team of researchers from the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre and IBM, at the Hartree National Centre for ...

The core breakthroughs of the new generation of RNA virus detection technologies focus primarily on two key objectives: first, enhancing biosensor mutation tolerance-specifically, developing sensors ...

Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the warning of a new paper in the journal Science Advances, which concluded that ...

There are currently two approved COVID-19 treatments that can be taken orally: nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (known as Paxlovid and developed by Pfizer) and Merck’s molnupiravir. They have both been shown to ...

The laboratories of the International Space Station (ISS) offer a unique observation ground for the evolution of microbes. A recent study reveals that viruses and bacteria adapt there according to ...