Researchers at San Diego State University and Michigan State University are shedding new light on how viruses meticulously ...

Researchers have discovered that a virus living inside the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus significantly boosts the fungus's ...

Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the ...

The quest for a vaccine against HIV has been going on for about 40 years — almost as long as the virus that causes AIDS has ...

The Basics of Viruses We know that viruses are quite diverse. Unlike all other biological entities, some viruses, like poliovirus, have RNA genomes and some, like herpesvirus, have DNA genomes.

Thought too hard to do, a new platform evolved proteins in mammalian cells, which could help researchers design drugs that ...

The virus has one of the largest RNA genomes on record and is only the second nidovirus found in bivalves. Nidoviruses are found in a wide range of animals, including humans; for example, SARS-CoV ...

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus causing fever, severe joint pain, rash, and muscle aches, mainly ...

The RNA fragments are from viruses that infected the symbionts as long ago as 160 million years. The discovery is described in an open-access study published this week in the Nature journal ...

Chikungunya, which can disable victims for years, is spreading rapidly, including in China, France and other places that have ...