Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) continues to devastate the global swine industry, yet the ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have helped uncover how ticks mount a defense against a deadly virus ...

Scientists have identified hundreds of new giant viruses, or 'giruses,' in oceans worldwide, using advanced computer software ...

Scientists have uncovered a stealthy tactic used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus: one of its proteins can leap from infected cells to ...

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help itself grow ...

The study identified 230 new giant viruses and 530 novel functional proteins, shedding light on their interactions with ...

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion.

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified 4,208 previously unannotated open reading frames (ORFs) across 679 human-associated viral genomes using a high-throughput method ...

Plant RNA viruses pose a significant threat to global agriculture, affecting a vast array of crop species and leading to ...

Scientists in Spain and China discovered that HSV-1 begins rewriting the architecture of human genes just one hour after ...