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 ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

“Our analyses show that the historical [human Rhinovirus] A genome represents an extinct lineage closely related to HRV A19 ...

The gutting of HIV drug programs isn't just bad policy; it threatens a repeat of history's deadliest mistake, writes John ...

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

SCHOOL groups and tourists are visiting a cave with bats that carry Marburg virus, previously flagged as having pandemic ...

For much of modern biology, scientists argued that viruses are not alive, pointing to a basic limitation: they cannot make proteins on their own and must depend entirely on the cells they infect for ...

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

Biochemists at Caltech have identified how viruses have converged on a method for killing bacteria. The researchers have homed in on an underexplored small transporter called MurJ that is a vital part ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...