(CNN) — The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A California Department of Food and Agriculture technician perform tests on chickens for bird flu in 2006 at the Best Live Poultry ...

Researchers have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates ...

The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of biology. They carry genetic material, but they cannot make proteins on ...

CLAIM: Scientists have not isolated the COVID-19 virus, so a vaccine is not possible. THE FACTS: The virus was first isolated by Chinese authorities on Jan. 7, according to the World Health ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant ...

Decades of research have showed scientists what mutations to watch for in the H5N1 virus. The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could ...