High-throughput neutralisation tests could lead to a better understanding of the evolution of human influenza.

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ...

In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced recommendations for the viral composition of influenza (or "flu") ...

Biochemists at Caltech have identified how viruses have converged on a method for killing bacteria. The researchers have ...

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, ...

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opts its host’s systems with the help of ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising ...

Antibiotic resistance is rising fast, killing tens of thousands each year in the U.S. alone—and scientists are racing to find ...

For much of modern biology, scientists argued that viruses are not alive, pointing to a basic limitation: they cannot make ...

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