John Roehrig died March 8 after a battle with ALS. During his career, he was on the front lines of the U.S. response to West Nile virus.

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

Sesame, the AI startup behind the impressively realistic voice assistant Maya, has released the base AI model powering Maya.

Dengue virus, a WHO grade 3 emergency, infected over 10 million individuals in 2024. With no population-effective prophylaxis or direct treatment, there is an urgent need for immediate vector control ...

That therapy uses an adeno-associated virus (AAV) as a vector rather than a lentivirus, a vector type that features in approved gene therapies such as Roche's Luxturna and Novartis' Zolgensma.

New York is testing its milk for bird flu. While pasteurization kills the virus, there is a growing concern raw milk could be ...

Strasbourg (France), March 11, 2025, 5:45 p.m. CET – Transgene (Euronext Paris: TNG), a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, today ...

Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the ...

A new process for converting skin cells to neurons directly could make it easier to develop therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.

"We don't see it super commonly, but it is definitely out there and worth being concerned about," said Allison Bray, with San ...

A modified herpes virus that targets spinal cord nerve cells to treat neurogenic bladder in people with spinal cord injury is ...