An investigation into cellular components in bacteria has unexpectedly uncovered a feature with relevance across many life ...

A common childhood virus, BK virus, dormant in the urinary tract, is now linked to DNA damage increasing bladder cancer risk.

Rutgers scientists have developed a new approach to stopping viral infections: a so-called live-attenuated, replication-defective DNA virus vaccine that uses a compound known as centanamycin to ...

Some viruses mutate more rapidly than others. Learn more about why that is and what that means for your health.

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the ...

Around 8 percent of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from ancient viruses. These sequences, known as human endogenous retroviruses (or Hervs), date back hundreds of thousands to ...

A research team led by Prof. Sun Chaomin from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) has ...

New research reveals that triggering a cell’s DNA damage response could be a promising avenue for developing novel treatments against several rare but devastating viruses for which no antiviral ...

Human DNA is not always making us function in ways we understand. Some of our genome is just there, and we’re not sure what it does. In fact, 8% of our DNA are viruses our ancestors caught one day and ...

UK researchers have found a common childhood virus that can trigger DNA damage leading to bladder cancer later in life.