This week's meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is likely to mark its end—for now—as a vaccine advisory body. Regardless of which party controlled the White House and ...

During the pandemic, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contribution to hepatitis C research. While in Spain to ...

In the world of viral research, uncovering a virus’s weaknesses is often a painstaking process that requires years of ...

Researchers discovered that HSV-1 (herpes simplex virus) actively reshapes the 3D layout of human DNA within hours of ...

Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes ...

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex (the large protein and phosphoprotein). Not only that, but they also ...

The rubella virus, which belongs to the Matonaviridae family, causes rubella. The virus spreads through respiratory droplets when a person with the infection coughs or sneezes. Because rubella is ...

A positive rubella IgG test indicates immunity to rubella, meaning that the pregnant person and the fetus cannot contract this virus. If a person contracts rubella, also known as German measles ...

By Sam Roberts Dr. Paul D. Parkman, whose research was instrumental in identifying the virus that causes rubella and developing a vaccine that has prevented an epidemic of the disease in the ...

Paul D. Parkman, a scientist who in the 1960s played a central role in identifying the rubella virus and developing a vaccine to combat it, breakthroughs that have eliminated from much of the ...

The WHO declared the global COVID outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Monday marks four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Since the ...

Rubella virus may impact not only immunodeficient patients, but also immunocompetent patients. Clinicians should consider rubella virus as a potential contributor to granulomatous skin disease in ...