Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, ...

Mosquitoes carry some of the world's deadliest viruses, biting victim after victim for their entire lives without ever ...

When people talk about the coronavirus, they sometimes describe this invisible entity as if it has a personality and even a conscience. If you ask a biology or medical student what a virus is, they ...

Scientists are uncovering viral features that blur the boundary between living and non-living, from giant viruses with protein-making tools to mysterious RNA entities in our microbiomes. These ...

Researchers recently discovered that a virus, FloV-SA2, encodes one of the proteins needed to make ribosomes, the central engines in all cells that translate genetic information into proteins, the ...

Ion channels are transmembrane protein complexes that control ion transport across the membranes and play a pivotal role for maintaining cellular homeostasis as well as in virus–host interactions. As ...

Most plant viruses depend upon arthropod vectors for their transmission among plant hosts. There are shreds of evidence of insect vectors and host manipulations by plant viruses for facilitating virus ...

161,979 new RNA viruses have been discovered using a machine learning tool that researchers believe will vastly improve the mapping of life on Earth and could aid in the identification of many ...

Nipah Virus LIVE Updates: After battling the deadly COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus for over 7 years, the world is witnessing a sudden re-emergence of another, comparatively deadlier virus - the ...

Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and cell. Like ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to watch the flu virus live as it infects human airway cells. They developed a new technique which makes the viral genetic material light up under the ...