Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...

For ten years, baltic (Backronymed Adaptable Lightweight Tree vIsualization Code) has been used to make annotated phylogeny figures in molecular epidemiology, including during the West African Ebola e...

Direct RNA amplification from whole blood is fundamentally limited by rapid enzymatic degradation and inhibitory matrix effects. Here, we present a blood drying protocol that enables sensitive and rob...

UKHSA finds invasive Aedes aegypti breeding in east London, prompting enhanced surveillance.

The deaths were the first associated with measles in the state in 35 years.

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This report describes cases of monkeypox virus infection reported during 2024–2025.

A phylogenetic analysis of 22 genomes from the recent Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda suggests the outbreak was caused by a new zoonotic spillover event.

The haloalkaline maar lake at Rincón de Parangueo, in central Mexico’s volcanic belt, is a doubly extreme habitat where high salinity and high alkalinity co-occur. Unlike the long-lived soda lakes tha...

The ongoing 2026 outbreak of Ebola virus disease caused by Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has renewed attention to one of the least studied human-pathogenic...

The group of former health and national security officials warned that Americans will be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats.

Ma et al. perform deep-phenotyping of CD8+ T cells specific for viruses implicated in LC pathogenesis: SARS-CoV-2, CMV, and EBV. These T cells from LC individuals share features of terminal differenti...

Alphaviruses are positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that assemble into striking double-icosahedral particles. During budding, the nucleocapsid core forms in the cytoplasm and adopts a T = 4 i...

Chikungunya (CHIKV; genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae) is a re-emerging Aedes-borne virus that causes an acute febrile illness (CHIKF) with an incubation period of typically 3–7 days. The disease i...

Mosquitoes are vectors for numerous arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) that are a huge global health burden. Chief among the vectors that transmit arboviruses is Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, which transmits not only yellow fever virus (YFV) but also dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV), and chikungunya (CHIKV) viruses. Together, these pathogens are the most prevalent arboviruses worldwide, driving recurrent epidemics, with DENV alone being responsible for ~100 million annual clinical cases and ~30,000 deaths (1, 2). In addition to these pathogens, Ae. aegypti can also function as a secondary vector for understudied arboviruses, including Mayaro, Bunyamwera, and Cache Valley viruses (3–6). The expanding global distribution of Ae. aegypti, coupled with its capacity to sustain infections with arboviruses from multiple viral taxa—e.g., Flaviviridae, Togaviridae, and Bunyavirales—poses a significant risk for viral emergence and disease transmission.

Lee et al. find that the planarian transposon Burro1 bolsters stem cell resilience by producing a functional host-derived caspase inhibitor during physiological stress. By suppressing apoptosis, activ...

AbstractBackground. The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global endeavour to produce reference genomes for all described eukaryotic species. The majority

Author Summary In this report we describe a newly discovered ebolavirus species which caused a large hemorrhagic fever outbreak in western Uganda. The virus is genetically distinct, differing by more ...

Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering global collaboration and public health response.

No vaccines or treatments exist for Ebola Bundibugyo, which has caused hundreds of suspected cases and 80 deaths; WHO warns of