A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...

Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can help us keep better tabs on the virus: sewage. While wastewater already ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

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In the near future, gene silencing against influenza viruses may also be successfully applied in antiviral therapeutics. There are several bottlenecks in the successful application of gene ...

The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

The students used simple evasive strategies to camouflage orders for gene-length DNA fragments that could be used to recreate the Spanish Flu virus that caused the pandemic of historic proportions.

Is there a connection between bird flu and microRNA, the tiny bits of RNA which have different tasks in regulating genes and producing the body's building blocks? "MicroRNA is quite stable ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.