Researchers discovered how rabies virus exerts massive control over host cells with very few genes. A key viral protein ...

Researchers are increasingly developing antibody therapies to treat infectious diseases. Therapies are being designed to ...

Everyone knows that the fall brings flu season, replete with aches, pains and a new version of the vaccine. But why is cold ...

New study reveals how human astroviruses bind to humans cells and paves the way for new therapies and vaccines ...

Researchers from Nobel Laureate David Baker's lab at the University of Washington have successfully used AI to design ...

Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne virus that is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, typically on the South American continent, and ...

In a laboratory in Florida, a house cat named Pepper has again been involved in the unanticipated discovery of a new virus as a result of its habit of bringing home dead mammals. This time, it was a ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

Ancient viral DNA in bacteria helps block new infections, offering a potential path to fight antibiotic resistance.