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Health warning for Australians and their pets after rare virus kills 28 in Queensland - Bacterial infection that thrives in ...

The first giant virus to be identified, called Mimivirus (short for microbe mimicking virus ), was discovered in 2003 inside ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare immune cell type in the lungs, called NAMs, plays a crucial role in surviving COVID-19 ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

DNA found in museum pieces could provide a unique opportunity to study the history and spread of infectious diseases, ...

Scientists in Sweden have taken an important step forward in understanding how a very common virus, called Epstein-Barr virus ...

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Finland's first giant virus, Jyvaskylavirus, shows these viruses are more widespread than thought and play key roles in ...

Researchers at the Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyväskylä have achieved a first in Finland by isolating a giant ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a ...