News: Infectious Diseases

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

An infectious disease researcher at The University of Texas at Austin has been named a finalist for a major national science award.

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

For his role in biomedical research linked to the development of vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, the professor of molecular biosciences won the award given...

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

Most antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 circulating in the blood target areas of the viral spike protein outside the receptor binding domain, or RBD