Georgetown University announced the three inaugural winners of the Magis Prize, which awards $100,000 in research funding and two semesters of leave to associate professors who demonstrate exceptional ...

Well, this is disconcerting. According to an announcement today from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), vials of the smallpox virus were found in a lab in Maryland that was not only unapproved ...

Did faulty intelligence lead to an overblown scare over smallpox? The Administration said the possibility of a smallpox attack by Iraq strengthened its case for war–and necessitated a major ...

Besides isolation and endogamy, the researchers have also identified the variola virus which can offer a new explanation on how smallpox entered Iberia. Researchers from Sweden and Spain have ...

It is common knowledge that microbes hitched rides on long sea voyages like that of Christopher Columbus. But it was never inevitable that diseases like smallpox and measles would survive these early ...

From eradicating smallpox to battling the COVID-19 pandemic, these vaccine pioneers have helped make colossal strides in ...

In a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in the United States of America used mathematical modeling to study the risk of shipborne ...