Covid-19 Is Not the Spanish Flu
PHOTOGRAPH: HULTON DEUTSCH / GETTY IMAGES A widely cited stat about death rates seems to argue otherwise, but it's surely incorrect. So...
SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Case fatality Ratio
Driving the anxiety and uncertainty about the current outbreak of COVID-19 is the case fatality ratio (CFR) being thrown about carelessly...
Zika Infects Adult Neural Progenitors Too
A mouse study shows that the virus has tropism for adult proliferative neural progenitor cells and immature neurons. Zika virus exposure...
Experimental malaria vaccine protects adults for more than a year
At a Glance An experimental malaria vaccine protected healthy adults from infection for more than a year after immunization. The vaccine...
Zika virus structure revealed
At a Glance The Zika virus surface is similar to that of dengue and related viruses at the near-atomic level, researchers found, but with...
Stopping HIV with an artificial protein
For 30 years, researchers have struggled to determine which immune responses best foil HIV, information that has guided the design of...
