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PHA4GE member Dylan Pilz won best poster presentation at the Wastewater & Environmental Surveillance Meeting 2026 in Ghana for work on rapid detection of cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variants in South African wastewater.

David Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations

Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

This week, the CDC began to publish long-awaited data that will reveal the extent of measles’ comeback. While applauding the science, researchers say the Trump administration has done little to contai...

Covert mortality nodavirus, a pathogen previously known to cause important losses in shrimp aquaculture, is identified as being a potential causative agent of an emerging and severe ocular disease in ...

Long-simmering outbreak picked up steam after wrestling tournament

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

Using a phylogenetic framework to characterize natural selection, we investigate the hypothesis that zoonotic viruses require adaptation prior to zoon…

This map is updated weekly and visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases

As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

I didn’t know why I had been hospitalized, but it was greeted as something of a miracle that I knew and could spell my own name.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

Genomic Surveillance and Pathogen Data Sharing: A New Era for Scientific Diplomacy, Virtual Fireside Chat featuring Belfer Center Fellow Dr. Syra Madad and Dr. Kristian Andersen, Director of Infectiou...

Measles infections in South Carolina have soared to more than 550, and 500 other people are under quarantine. At least ten states have seen new measles cases this month amidst the height of flu season...

$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease

The CDC is now recommending routine childhood vaccinations against 11 diseases, down from 17 as of the end of 2024.