Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, ...

The pandemic has left some evidence that viral infection may play a role in reawakening dormant cancer cells already present ...

A new nanodisc breakthrough lets scientists see viruses more realistically, revealing hidden clues that could lead to better ...

Most pandemics start when a pathogen spreads from animals to humans. It's a leading explanation for the COVID-19 pandemic: ...

We tend to just think of viruses in terms of their damaging impacts on human health and lives. The 1918 flu pandemic killed around 50 million people. Smallpox claimed 30% of those who caught it, and ...

Suddenly they appear and -- like the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus -- can trigger major epidemics: Viruses that nobody had on their radar. They are not really new, but they have changed genetically. In ...

A team at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont has stumbled onto a finding that upends a long-standing ...

There are approximately 90 tick species in the U.S. alone, and many of them carry pathogens. While Lyme disease remains the ...

Bay County mosquito control has detected the season’s first evidence of West Nile virus and Jamestown Canyon virus in ...

The roles microbes play in ecosystems are changing with global warming. Microbes are also affected by infection by viruses, but scientists know relatively little about how these viral infections could ...

Our genomes contain hundreds of genes with antiviral jobs that are called into action when a virus succeeds in infecting one ...

Inside every mosquito is a hidden ecosystem of viruses and this may help determine which diseases they spread, according to new research published in Nature Communications. Mosquitoes are best known ...