Speaking with ChronicleLive, David Foley said he was well aware of the "horrific" contaminated blood scandal - and his ...

Last week was the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Asilomar Summit, where scientists came together to establish guidelines for research with genetically modified microbes. Today many more discoveries and ...

Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a week after his wife Betsy Arakawa died of a rare infectious disease at their home, ...

In a study published in the scientific journal Cell, a group of researchers reported the discovery of a coronavirus in bats ...

A powerful new computer virus was today causing havoc with e-mail ... problematic for those unfortunate enough to receive it." The infected e-mail has the word "Hi" as its subject and body text ...

including the mpox virus, from infected cells. To do this, the scientists used biochemical and computer methods. "The aim was to gain a better understanding of why certain viral variants are ...

Like other viruses before it, the total damages from WannaCry were estimated to be in the billions of dollars. Interestingly, ...

Another hemorrhagic threat is Lassa Fever, a virus in West Africa infecting between 100,000 and 300,000 people annually, ...