Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

Old Giant Pandoravirus yedoma holds the record as the oldest virus ever revived from permafrost, having remained frozen for ...

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

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST, has identified a protein sensor that plays a key role in triggering severe inflammatory responses during mpox virus (MPXV) infection. The study reveals ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom have found a common childhood virus that can trigger DNA damage leading to bladder cancer ...

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

In 2020, as scientists around the world were racing to understand COVID-19, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv and his team at the Weizmann ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

How could something known for causing disease make life possible? Scientists reveal that ancient viruses inserted pieces of ...

Over time, clonal expansion leads to an increase in the frequency of infected cells in a patient. The proviruses in daughter ...