A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold becomes.

A common cold can feel like a small thing until it is not. One day you feel fine, and the next you wake up congested, drained ...

Nipah virus does not just infect the body, it disrupts immune defences at multiple levels, suppressing early antiviral responses and triggering harmful inflammation.

Zika virus hijacks a key protein implicated in brain development for its own replication. Researchers led by Associate Professor Priya Shah at the University of California, Davis (CA, USA), have ...

Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.