The virus that causes COVID-19 might be becoming resistant to antiviral treatments, new research has warned. But should we be concerned? The antiviral drugs nirmatrelvir and remdesivir are recommended ...

During those terrifying early days of the pandemic, scientists offered one piece of reassuring news about the novel coronavirus: It mutated slowly. The earliest mutations did not appear to be ...

Tamiflu, the same antiviral used to treat ordinary seasonal influenza, is the front line medication recommended for treating highly pathogenic bird flu (Photo by Rui Vieira/PA Images via Getty Images) ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University's School of Medicine helped discover a new strain of coronavirus. Dr. David Montefiori, a professor of surgery who also serves as Director of the ...

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Remdesivir has been approved as a stand-alone therapy for the treatment and prevention of Covid-19. One of the questions that arises with any single drug treatment of an RNA virus is the level of ...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is continuously evolving and structural changes to the virus may impact the efficacy of antibody therapies and vaccines. A study describes the structural and functional landscape ...

A small study of 156 people with COVID-19 has found that mutations that confer resistance to antiviral drugs were “commonly detected”, especially in immunocompromised patients. The authors stress that ...

Researchers in Japan have uncovered the mechanism for how the measles virus (MeV) can cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, a rare but fatal neurological disorder that can occur several ...

New research has identified a genetic mutation that confers resistance to cassava mosaic disease (CMD). Groundbreaking research led by Rebecca Bart, PhD, associate member, and Nigel Taylor, PhD, ...