News: Infectious Diseases

It might enable inexpensive, highly sensitive at-home diagnostic tests for COVID-19, influenza, Ebola and more.

Undergraduate students at UT Austin are recognized for their work which could save bats from a condition that is often deadly and dangerous.

A new University of Texas at Austin initiative will focus primarily on biologic research and development.

A new report releases what the nation’s best degrees of the future are.

What if there were a way to make proteins, enzymes and reagents right in the lab, in small amounts, on demand?

Frogs are also struggling through their own pandemic that has several eerie parallels with COVID-19.

Inside the "biological foundry" at the Army Research Lab's ARL-South partnership on the campus of UT Austin

Scientists are developing vaccines and other treatments for the tick-borne Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF)

Jason McLellan, UT Austin molecular biosciences professor, has received the 2021 Shirley Bird Perry Longhorn Citizenship Award

A new study reveals that colistin, a last resort antibiotic “punches holes in bacteria, causing them to pop like balloons.”