To see how microgravity changes certain microbes, researchers sent bacteria-infecting viruses called bacteriophages to the ...

Air and surface testing in live poultry markets detects dangerous viruses earlier than testing birds alone, improving ...

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more ...

Learn how scientists identified genetic clues that distinguish natural viral spillovers from lab-handled viruses — and why ...

Scientists found a virus hidden in gut bacteria that may double colorectal cancer risk, according to a new study. Here, an oncologist explains the findings.

Viruses have spent billions of years perfecting the art of invading cells, hijacking their machinery and spreading with ruthless efficiency. Now researchers are turning that evolutionary expertise ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, uses a sophisticated tactic to evade the human body's defense ...

Every winter, like clockwork, respiratory viruses spread across the country: respiratory syncytial virus, commonly known as ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Viruses and cancers are deeply intertwined. Globally, one in ten new cancer cases arises in the context of chronic viral infections, with human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and hepatitis B and C viruses ...

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