Combating infectious diseases and the threat of antimicrobial resistance remains one of the greatest global challenges.
Damage to the brainstem – the brain’s ‘control centre’ – is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a...
Monoclonal antibodies – treatments developed by cloning a cell that makes an antibody – could help provide an answer to the growing problem of...
Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to identify drug resistant infections, significantly reducing the time taken for a correct diagnosis...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa – an environmental bacteria that can cause devastating multidrug-resistant infections, particularly in people with underlying...
Researchers say it is vital that children born by caesarean section receive two doses of the measles vaccine for robust protection against the...
Vaccination not only reduces the severity of TB in infected cattle, but reduces its spread in dairy herds by 89%, research finds.
Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, genomic surveillance proved vital in helping understand the evolution and spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Now, an...
A person’s immune response to variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on their previous exposure – and differences in the...
Studies of a ‘future-proof’ vaccine candidate have shown that just one antigen can be modified to provide a broadly protective immune response in...
Scientists have discovered how poxviruses evade natural defences in living cells, and realised that drugs to stop them doing this are already...
An international team of researchers has found a genetic variant that may explain why some people of African ancestry have naturally lower viral...
