Bangladeshi researchers have uncovered an emerging bat-borne virus in archived throat swabs and viral cultures from five ...

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

Viruses have spent billions of years perfecting the art of invading cells, hijacking their machinery and spreading with ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that is forcing biologists to rethink how complex life began. The newly ...

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of viruses – and possibly also into the origins of multicellular life. The virus ...

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Scientists at the University of Vienna, Austria, have screened great ape specimens obtained from natural history museums to identify DNA viruses. This groundbreaking study provides unique insights ...

Michael Worobey's lab has circled the globe for clues to how killer viruses jump into humans and then spread worldwide. Think "CSI" for HIV: Researchers have collected traces of viral DNA from ...

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new ...

The effectiveness of this season’s flu vaccine in Canada is 40% against medically attended infection with influenza A (H3N2) ...