Scientists are gaining an insider's look behind the notorious infectivity of Francisella tularensis. Also called rabbit fever, the disease doesn't seem to spread from person to person. Instead, people ...

A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionize the response to future pandemics, researchers report. A new method that can rapidly ...

When you exhale, the aerosol droplets you expel experience a big shock. In an instant, these particles are thrust from the humid, carbon dioxide-rich environment of the lungs into indoor air that’s ...

3D visualization of the coronavirus. Researchers from Indiana University recently published a study which showed demonstrated how coronavirus infectivity is eradicated on exposure to an ...

The Omicron variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus contains extensive sequence changes relative to earlier SARS-CoV-2 variants that, to date, have unknown ...

Enveloped viruses can be inactivated by exposure to acids, such as within aerosols in the atmosphere. A new study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server provides insight on the potentially significant ...

A warning has emerged that the H9N2 avian influenza virus, which had not drawn much attention, could cause a pandemic. While health authorities worldwide had focused on the deadly H5N1 type, the virus ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Chicago discovered that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) uses a small but ...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus can lose 90% of infectivity when in aerosol particles within 20 minutes, according to new University of Bristol findings. The study, published in the journal of the Proceedings of ...

Engineers at LumaCyte and Thermo Fisher Scientific have demonstrated a method to rapidly analyze viral vaccines using laser force cytology, a combination of optics and microfluidics, to identify and ...