The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said ...

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A study published in the journal Science finds that bird flu viruses can resist fever-like temperatures in mice -- allowing ...

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Researchers investigating Nipah-like illnesses in Bangladesh have uncovered evidence of another bat-borne virus circulating in humans. Researchers studying infectious diseases have found evidence of ...

Researchers studying Caribbean whales and orcas have discovered two new viruses not previously observed in these animals. The ...

We cannot compare primitive organisms such as viruses with complex living entities such as plants and animals. In fact, because viruses are 'mono-unitary' organisms, the most plausible comparison ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists have set them apart from the rest of life. Viruses were far smaller than ...

Learn how plastic pollution is creating new pathways for antibiotic resistance to become an even bigger public health threat.

A new analysis supports the hypothesis that viruses are living entities that share a long evolutionary history with cells. A new study offers the first reliable method for tracing viral evolution back ...

RNA viruses are able to undergo two forms of recombination: RNA recombination, which (in principle) can occur in any type of RNA virus, and reassortment, which is restricted to those viruses with ...