Using genomics, evolutionary biologists test several hypotheses on the origin of viruses. New evidence suggests they may have emerged more times than previously thought. Corroborating the virus-first ...

In the realm of medical advancements, a universal vaccine that can protect against any pathogen has long been a Holy ...

Don't feel as if you're out of the loop if you're not up on the terminology of spillover viruses. In fact, one of the doctors we interviewed for this series on spillovers asked, "What is your ...

Villain. Killer. Menace. Since 2020, scientists and public officials have used these words to describe SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. News articles, research papers and tweets repeatedly ...

Besides serving as food for certain microbes, viruses perform some helpful functions that remain poorly understood. A ciliate, a type of single-celled microbe, swims next to Sphagnum moss, amplified ...

I’ve had it up to here with viruses lately. It’s easy in these times to wonder whether there’s anything good about them. That made me curious about why viruses exist in the first place, and where they ...

Medical gas plasma can render adenoviruses harmless within a short period of time. This has been demonstrated by a recent ...