For the first time, researchers have identified a multicomponent RNA virus – one containing different segments of genetic material in separate particles,...
According to a team of researchers led by Yale University, infection by the Zika virus diverts a key protein necessary for neural cell division in the...
An international group of scientists led by the University of Kansas has created a detailed map that shows areas of the world most likely to see cases...
Led by University of Texas Medical Branch researcher Prof. Scott Weaver, an international team of scientists is the first to directly connect Aedes aegypti...
Transmission electron micrograph of Zika virus, which is a member of the family Flaviviridae. Virus particles are 40 nm in diameter, with an outer envelope,...
In a new study published in the journal eLife, scientists apply big-data analysis to reveal the full extent of viruses’ impact on the evolution of humans...
According to a mouse study published this week in the journal Immunity, the swelling and irritation that make mosquito bites so unpleasant may provide...
A team of researchers led by Purdue University scientists Michael Rossmann and Richard Kuhn is the first to determine the structure of the Zika virus,...
A team of scientists, led by Dr. Reed Shabman of the J. Craig Venter Institute and Prof. Christopher Basler of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,...
A shape-shifting frog from Ecuador, a giant virus from Siberia, and a bioluminescent shark are among the twenty most bizarre species discovered in the...
An international group of researchers has identified genes that disable HIV-1, suggesting a promising new strategy for battling the virus that causes AIDS.
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Viruses are fully-alive organisms that share a long evolutionary history with cells, according to a new study published last week in the journal Science...
The saga of giant Acanthamoeba-infecting viruses started in 2003 with the discovery of Mimivirus. Two additional types of giant viruses have been discovered...
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown hepatovirus in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) that is the closest known relative of the human hepatitis...
A team of computational and experimental researchers headed by Prof Klaus Schulten from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has constructed...
A team of scientists at the Schepens Eye Research Institute and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has resurrected an ancient adeno-associated virus that...
An unusual virus called Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-shaped Virus 2 (SIRV2 for short) could be a new weapon in the fight against pathogens, says an international...
In five papers published in the May 22 issue of the journal Science, marine biologists who spent 3.5 years sampling the ocean’s upper layers aboard the...
