Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of ...

Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

Public health experts criticize Retsef Levi’s studies ahead of a key vaccine advisory meeting ...

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

Donald Trump has made several misleading claims throughout his career, according to fact checkers. Here, we have a look at some of the most relevant ones.

To date, there are no approved vaccines or antiviral treatments for human norovirus, the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis outbreaks worldwide with more than 685 million infections each year.

On18, China's legislature nearly unanimously endorsed a change to the Constitution formally removing term limits.

Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Party's new Senate nominee, has a history of making highly controversial ...

In the United States, wild pigs are a problem. These hardy animals destroy crops, adapt to a variety of environments, and cause substantial economic costs to the agricultural industry. Worse still, ...

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...