A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can awaken the human immune system and ...

We all get sick sometimes. Even something pretty minor, like a cold or flu, can be enough to disrupt your life for a few days ...

A new study shows how person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. A new study has shown that person-to-person ...

Tom Anchordoquy receives funding for this work from the Nationals Institutes of Health through grant # RO1 CA289447. When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua W. Modell ...