WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — One of the first things the general of any army does before a battle is scout the terrain. Without seeing and understanding the battlefield, the issues of tactics, strategy and ...

Libusha Kelly receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Viruses are a mysterious and poorly understood force in microbial ecosystems. Researchers know they can infect, kill and ...

Researchers have discovered new RNA bacteriophages, viruses that attack bacteria, advancing understanding of virus evolution. A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and ...

Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...

The World Health Organization is cautioning that there are still a lot of unknowns about the coronavirus outbreak. What may be an attempt to tamp down speculation and conflicting headlines about ...

Microbiologists have long known that ancient, inactive viruses known as cryptic prophages can insert their genetic material into bacterial DNA. These genetic fragments allow bacteria to use ...

Over a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s still unclear exactly how it began. Dr. Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has become one of ...

The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin report in Nature ...

Viral infections may have enormous global impacts, as evidenced by the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

In an unprecedented scientific achievement, researchers have managed to revive viruses that remained frozen for an approximate 50,000 years. The study not only advances our understanding of ancient ...

During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, there was a marked increase in neurological complications such as febrile seizures, encephalopathy or encephalitis, delirium, and focal neurologic syndromes, ...