A global study uncovers the hidden role of viruses in driving bacterial evolution and highlights a surprising bacterial gene ...

By studying chickens, researchers say they have proven the theory that more virulent viruses can evolve from so-called “leaky” vaccines. Healthline Health Conditions ...

/Life sciences/Computational biology/Network science/ Network modeling Additional Multimedia (Figure 2) Evolved virulence in metapopulations with randomly generated heterogeneous local environments.

The image shows red blood cells, ... which will be published in the 31 July 2012 issue of the scientific journal PLoS Biology, showed that more-virulent malaria parasites evolved in response to ...

The world is still in its seventh cholera pandemic, which has been surging since 2021, and case rates in various countries continue to be high.The disease is usually caused when water or food ...

/Life sciences/Computational biology/Network science/ Network modeling Additional Multimedia (Figure 2) Evolved virulence in metapopulations with randomly generated heterogeneous local environments.

A committee of experts examined about a dozen different synthetic biology technologies that could be potentially misused. For each, they considered how likely it was to be usable as a weapon.

Study: Virulence Differences of Monkeypox Virus Clades 1, 2a and 2b.1 in a Small Animal Model. Image Credit: MIA Studio/Shutterstock. This news article was a review of a preliminary scientific ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Virulence evolution and the trade-off hypothesis: history, current state of affairs and the future, Jan. 19, 2009 Evolution, Virulence-driven trade-offs in disease ...

Dengue, a recurring tropical disease that experiences outbreaks during the monsoon season, becomes more aggressive and severe in animal models when its virus (DENV) is cultivated in mosquito ...