Nature Microbiology, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02468-3This study extends the Pango lineage nomenclature system beyond SARS-CoV-2, introducing a dynamic framework for tracking and communicating viral diversity, demonstrated through its application to CHIKV.

Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

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...

Réunion Island experienced a massive chikungunya virus epidemic in 2024–2025, with >54,000 confirmed cases. This is the second major chikungunya ep...

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...

The Pentagon is attempting to divert billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster the agency’s budget, according to the top Democrat on the House Appropria…

baltic - backronymed adaptable lightweight tree import code for molecular phylogeny manipulation, analysis and visualisation. Development is back on the evogytis/baltic branch (i.e. here). - evogyt...

In a new study, Yale researchers found that hot temperatures and extreme precipitation are probably increasing the prevalence of malaria in parts of Africa.

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

An epidemic’s expected course is determined by the magnitude and timing of a typical person’s infectiousness — captured, in turn, by the basic reproduction number and the generation-time distribution....

A mosquito-borne virus circulating since the 1700s went unnoticed until genomic sequencing revealed its centuries-long history and unique two-cycle transmission.

A legendary scientist reflects on why he became so successful: He got out of the office — and away from bosses.

On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

Clinical metagenomics uses sequencing for culture-independent identification of pathogens directly from clinical specimens. While a number of protocols claim to be pathogen agnostic, sensitivity for R...

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih