Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork.

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Through cutting-edge methods and advanced artificial intelligence analysis, UNC Charlotte researchers leading a ...

Every year, around 600 million people are struck down by foodborne illnesses. The culprits are often common yet dangerous ...

The unusual cases of pneumonia began to appear in midwinter, in China. The cause, researchers would later learn, was a coronavirus new to science. By March, the infection began to spread to other ...

Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells, but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet ...

Dear Science Mine: What is the difference between a virus and a bacterium? Both can infect us, they both make us sick, but bacteria respond to antibiotics and viruses don't. How come? Answer: Bacteria ...

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 ...

A new artificial intelligence tool could aid in limiting or even prevent pandemics by identifying animal species that may harbor and spread viruses capable of infecting humans. The machine learning ...

After winning accolades in the US for his outstanding research, Xie’s work will continue to focus on effective mRNA-based ...