Using consensus sequences from 134 human-infecting viruses and the annotated human genome, the team looked for viral mimicry to linear sequences of eight, 12, or 18 amino acid residues that had no ...

A major new effort at Weill Cornell Medicine seeks to catalog the normal human virome, the immense ecosystem of viruses that lives in and on us.

Examples of transmissible bird diseases associated with pigeons ... which can work their way throughout structures to infest and bite humans. About two-thirds of these pests may be detrimental ...

For example, the Spanish flu that circulated ... Genetic changes in the H5N1 virus Humans, too, have become part of this pingpong game. As of Feb. 25, 70 people in the United States had been ...