Marine viruses deploy a sophisticated Trojan horse maneuver that enables them to dismantle the energy systems of ocean ...

D imaging reveals ancient phages virus with features dating back billions of years - and potential to fight today’s dangerous ...

For more than half a century, scientists have hunted for the cause of lupus. The disease is relentless and debilitating, one ...

It's an evolutionary battle, an endless competition for survival, that has spanned millions of years. Within this epic tale ...

Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread.

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the ...

Resurrection biology — attempting to bring strings of molecules and more complex organisms back to life — is gaining traction in labs around the world. The work is a far cry from the genetically ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The term “gain of function” is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts ...

Medusavirus, a giant virus, is more closely related to eukaryotic cells than other giant viruses are. In an exciting new study, scientists have used electron microscopy and time-course analysis to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists have set them apart from the rest of life. Viruses were far smaller than ...

After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might picture a virus as a nasty spiked ball — a mindless killer that gets into a cell and hijacks its machinery to create a gazillion copies of ...

Gain-of-function experiments in the lab can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people in the wild. KTSDesign/Science Photo Library via Getty Images As ...