Scientists have used artificial intelligence to design complete, functioning viruses with genomes never seen before in nature — a breakthrough that could open new avenues for fighting drug-resistant ...

A lot of the AI work in biology has been focused on designing proteins. That’s partly because proteins do most of the business of life, catalyzing the interesting chemistry and structuring cells. So, ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A Long Island man was diagnosed with the first confirmed case of an incredibly rare and possibly fatal tick-borne virus in New York State. Last month, Stony Brook Medicine published ...

A rarely diagnosed tick-borne virus with no vaccine or specific treatment has been confirmed in New York for the first time, prompting researchers to warn that additional infections may be going ...

The virus was discovered in 2014 and has since been reported in the Midwest, East Coast and Southern United States Getty A man from Long Island has been diagnosed with an extremely rare, potentially ...

Hampton and Derry are now the latest communities where mosquito batches have tested positive for Jamestown Canyon Virus. Positive batches have also been found in Exeter, Fremont, Kingston and Salem.

A potentially deadly virus spread by ticks seems to have established a foothold in New York, recent research shows. Scientists at Stony Brook University and others studied the blood of New York ...

A rare, potentially fatal virus has been confirmed in New York state for the first time. Michael Larkin, 67, of Brookhaven, Long Island, tested positive for the tick-borne Bourbon virus, according to ...

For the first time, a rare tick-borne infection has been confirmed in New York. Michael Larkin, 67, was working outdoors in Suffolk County when he was bitten by two lone star ticks, infecting him with ...

Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they have yet to identify the species. By Carl Zimmer Since April, an outbreak ...

Bundibugyo virus is a relatively rare orthoebolavirus that has caused only two previously recognized disease outbreaks but remains capable of producing severe epidemic disease with substantial ...

New state health data show a potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus has been detected in Central Florida, raising concerns as residents head into the peak summer mosquito season. At Rotary Park along ...