LONDON – Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. said it has developed a reagent that can drastically shorten the time to detect Zika virus infections, which are spreading mainly in Brazil.

Diverse antibodies induced in humans by vaccination with an avian influenza virus vaccine may offer broader, more durable protection against multiple strains of influenza than today's vaccines typi

A new vaccine allows pneumonia-causing bacteria to colonize inside the body, springing into action only if the bacteria pose a threat.

The successful results of a University of Liverpool led drug trial aimed at developing new therapeutic approaches to cancer have been presented at two American medical conferences.

Malaria parasites cause hundreds of millions of infections, and kills hundreds of thousands of people annually, mostly in Africa.

Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology and Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle have deciphered how the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis is able to tolerate the rece

UK scientists have developed a blood test to help doctors pick the best drug for patients with depression.

Scientists have finally figured out what Zika virus does to the human body, and it explains why its effects can be so devastating, but infections can go for months without detection.