The human body is naturally equipped with defenses to fight off viral infections. For a virus to successfully infect it, it ...

Merck & Co Inc (NYSE:MRK) has begun a Phase 3 clinical trial to test its experimental dengue vaccine in a pediatric ...

Officials warn of disease risks as mosquito management efforts that characterize the wet season intensify.

Thanks to a clever modification of the baculovirus, vaccines can now be produced in insect cells more easily and cleaner.

Fans of brightly-colored tropical plants may favor this unusual variety, but don't grow it in your yard if you're trying to ...

along with the genome polyprotein from the dengue virus. The vaccine’s physicochemical properties, secondary structures, and three-dimensional (3D) structure were predicted and refined, and it was ...

Reading the excellent article titled ‘Tackling insidious killer’ (The Island 2025/06/04) by Priyantha Hewage, a few questions ...

Dengue was diagnosed in the mother and the neonate by the ELISA dengue virus NS1 antigen test (Wantai, Beijing, China) and dengue virus fluorogenic quantitative PCR test (Liferiver, Shanghai, ...

A newly published and widely acclaimed book ‘The Apostles of Development- Six Economists and the World They Made,’ by Yale ...

The instrument, which can create images of viruses down to near atomic level in three dimensions, revealed the now familiar spiky structure of SARSCoV-2. A monitor used with the microscope ...

We have all heard of antibodies – proteins produced by our bodies to bind to viruses or bacteria, marking them for ...

Inspired by the way viruses attach to cells, EPFL scientists have developed a method for engineering ultra-selective aptamers ...