Barr virus—but new research reveals how it can hijack immune cells, sparking a chronic disease that attacks the body from ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

One of humanity's most ubiquitous infectious pathogens bears the blame for the chronic autoimmune condition called systemic ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations ...

The movement of people can also spread pathogens to new regions. Different countries need to co-ordinate a response as ...

As language models learn to interpret words in a sentence, protein language models learn how amino acids work together within a protein.

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our cells.

Using genomics, evolutionary biologists test several hypotheses on the origin of viruses. New evidence suggests they may have ...

Scientists have discovered a new bat virus in Brazil that shares a key genetic feature with COVID-19, raising concerns about ...

Ocean viruses, mostly those infecting bacteria, are key to healthy marine ecosystems. A new study of Korean coastal waters ...