11-07-01 A new study shows that differences in the vulnerability（弱点） of animals to a virus are crucial to understanding patterns of infection, and that variation in susceptibility to two marginally different viruses increases the number of infections whe...

11-06-30 Researchers looked at changes in the behaviour of bluetongue（蓝舌病） a viral disease of cattle and sheep - from the 1960s to the present day, as well as what could happen to the transmission of the virus 40 years into the future. They found, for t...

11-06-09 Scientists at Rockefeller University and The Scripps Research Institute have developed the first genetically humanized mouse model for hepatitis C（丙型肝炎） , an achievement that will enable researchers to test molecules that block entry of the he...

11-04-19 New research suggests that people who are exposed to low levels of sunlight coupled with a history of having a common virus known as mononucleosis（单核细胞增多症） may be at greater odds of developing multiple sclerosis ( MS多发性硬化 ) than those...

11-04-01 A section of the AIDS virus's protein envelope once considered an improbable（不可能的） target for a vaccine now appears to be one of the most promising, new research by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists indicates. The section, a twisting str...

11-03-29 For the first time, a virus that causes respiratory（呼吸的） disease in humans has been linked to the deaths of wild mountain gorillas, reports a team of researchers in the United States and Africa. The finding confirms that serious diseases can pa...

11-03-28 The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS, makes use of the base excision repair（切补修复） pathway when inserting its DNA into the host-cell genome, according to a new study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehen...

11-03-25 Wild migratory birds（候鸟） may indeed play a role in the spread of bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic（致病的） avian influenza H5N1. A study by the U.S. Geological Survey, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the Chines...

11-01-25 A research effort designed to prevent the introduction of viruses to blue crabs in a research hatchery（孵化场） could end up helping Chesapeake Bay watermen improve their bottom line by reducing the number of soft shell crabs perishing（死亡，毁灭...

11-01-20 Ebola, a virus that causes deadly hemorrhagic fever（出血热） in humans, has no known cure or vaccine. But a new study by University of Illinois at Chicago scientists has uncovered a family of small molecules which appear to bind to the virus's oute...