Dental, pharmacy and engineering faculty to engage in 4-year, $1.6 million study as part of Human Virome Program.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have shown that giant viruses long thought to exist only as fleeting, free-living particles that can embed themselves permanently in the ...

Gathering dust from buildings may hold promise as a more efficient way to track viral outbreaks in indoor settings, according ...

The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel.

So, in 2024, when Chinese scientists reported developing an artificial-intelligence tool to design conotoxins 1, it raised ...

Some rodents in South America carry arenaviruses and hantaviruses. Climate change may bring both to regions where neither is ...

A major obstacle may be standing in the way of the next generation of ultra-tiny computer chips. Researchers discovered that ...

A virus that ordinarily affects marine animals has caused glaucoma-like symptoms and even irreversible vision loss in a small but growing group of people in China. This is the first known time that a ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

Viruses rely on the machinery of their host cells to produce proteins, but some giant viruses encode a key part of this toolkit in their genome, enabling them to direct the host cell to produce more ...