As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks. Tick season is starting earlier and lasting longer, and ticks are popping up ...

You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8% of your genome actually comes from viruses that got stranded there. This viral detritus is a souvenir from our evolutionary past, a ...

Mutations can result in viruses that infect cells, but can't copy themselves without help from other viruses - now it seems these cheats may outnumber normal viruses in a third of influenza cases, red ...

GUANGZHOU, China — Trillions of viruses are living in your intestines right now, and they might be secretly controlling whether you stay healthy or get sick. Most of these microscopic entities target ...

MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request. Contact: Emilie Lorditch, University Communications: 517-355-4082, [email protected]; Bethany Mauger, College ...

As we head into the fall and winter season this is the time respiratory viruses tend to pick up, and while a late summer ...

The three may not go together in many people’s minds: partly owing to common myths about germs and partly because many viruses really do have lower activity levels in the summer. But it is possible to ...

“You take the virus, grow it up, purify it and kill it with an inactivating agent. That’s a whole-killed viral vaccine,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s ...