News: Infectious Diseases

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

A COVID-19 vaccine in human trials in Vietnam, Thailand and Brazil, holds promise for affordable vaccine manufacturing in countries currently dependent on imported vaccines.

According to a new review in the journal Science, when highly social animals — such as ants, mice and bats — get sick, their social interactions change...

For the first time, scientists identified a critical mechanism that remdesivir uses against SARS-CoV-2 and unearthed information that drug companies can use to develop new...

The world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society has announced that Jason McLellan, a University of Texas at Austin associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious.

A new study shows how much more likely construction workers are to get diagnosed with COVID-19 compared to non-construction workers

An epidemiologist and two molecular bioscientists get to the bottom of your burning COVID-19 questions.

Discovery may aid the fight against antibiotic resistance.