The drones carry Petri dishes and hover over the blowholes of northern whales. Droplets of their respiratory fluid land on ...

Scientists flew drones with petri dishes above several species of whales in northern seas to collect samples of whale blow, ...

Borna disease virus (BoDV-1) has long caused a fatal encephalitis known as Borna virus disease (BVD) in horses and sheep in Central Europe. This single-stranded RNA virus can infect the nervous system ...

Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa airport is running a trial to let dogs test travelers for the coronavirus, saying it could be better than laboratory tests.

New findings reveal the presence of replication-competent Oropouche virus in semen, posing fresh questions about sexual transmission risks and public health safety. Research Letter: ...

Now that the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, scientists are looking at ways to surveil indoor environments in real time for viruses. By combining recent advances in aerosol ...

Researchers have succeeded in detecting anti-avian influenza virus antibody in blood serum within 20 minutes, using a portable analyzer they have developed to conduct rapid on-site bio tests. If a ...

Scientists have developed a diagnostic test, which makes use of CRISPR, that can detect the virus that causes COVID-19 even after it has gone through mutations. Since viruses have the ability to ...

If you’ve ever thought it would be great to walk into a room and know whether the virus that causes COVID-19 is hanging around, scientists have a device for you. Researchers have created a machine a ...

It is not uncommon these days to hear about companies, who, after working for years to develop innovative, life-changing ideas, have repurposed them temporarily (and maybe permanently) as a result of ...

You may soon be able to get a wearable device that would help alert you to potential COVID-19 exposure. Today, we usually only learn about exposure to COVID when we find out someone we've been in ...

During the coronavirus pandemic, polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing has been an invaluable tool to diagnose new COVID-19 cases. But some social media users are casting doubt on the test's ...