A virus that typically infects black-eyed peas is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy—and researchers are uncovering why. In a study published in Cell Biomaterials, a team ...

A study conducted by Iowa State University researchers, in partnership with the National Animal Disease Center, suggests bird ...

A study at Iowa State University is seeking to determine whether bird flu, found in cows' milk, can also show up in other dairy animals.

A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can awaken the human immune system and ...

Fragments of the virus that causes bird flu have been found in samples of pasteurized milk, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday, but officials aren't concerned about danger to humans from ...

The UK Health Security Agency says H5N1 is still primarily a bird disease and the risk to the general public is still very low. But it tops the list of viruses likely to cause a pandemic, so ...

This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the eighth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...

Rep. Tony Gonzales wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking them to keep a close watch on the disease.

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in agriculture and horticulture. They were developed by researchers at the Martin ...

Peter Kasson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Commonwealth Health Research Board, and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He is ...