But the best tests of any theory are its accuracy at making experimental predictions in settings not directly related to those in which it was formulated, and its ability to explain previously ...

Another tool in an influenza virus’s kit is something known as reassortment. A flu virus’s genetic material is made up of eight RNA segments. When multiple viruses infect the same cell and ...

Europe is ramping up monitoring for human cases of H5N1 avian influenza ahead of the winter flu season over fears of virus ...

So far we have been lucky that the virus circulating in cows has yet to adapt to become something scarier. But luck is no ...