Infectious Diseases

Deleting a protein in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the principal vector for malaria transmission in Africa, could disrupt the mosquito-to-human transmission cycle

Experts are learning more about the fast-moving omicron variant in real time. Here’s what we know right now.

The researchers showed that convalescent plasma reduced the need for hospitalization by half for outpatients with COVID-19 who participated in the study.

New high-throughput platform screens drug compounds targeting macrodomain that plays critical role in the coronavirus life cycle.  

 A couple long years into the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be easy to think of it as a once-in-a-generation event. Instead, the pandemic should be viewed as “a warning shot” in the face of mounting biological threats  that countries still aren’t prepared to meet, according to…