New research shows feverish temperatures make it more difficult for viruses to hijack our cells. A mouse study suggests it's ...

Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, ...

For decades, Arieh Warshel, USC Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and a 2013 Nobel laureate, has used computer simulations ...

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Using genomics, evolutionary biologists test several hypotheses on the origin of viruses. New evidence suggests they may have emerged more times than previously thought. Corroborating the virus-first ...

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

For the first time, a new high-resolution microscopy technique has allowed researchers to watch live as influenza viruses ...

Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread. By tracing the shared architecture between long-extinct retroviruses and ...

How can a virus with only five proteins dominate a human cell that contains thousands? This question has long puzzled ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness.

Britons could be at risk of triple-infections this winter amid fears the country may face its 'worse flu season on record', scientists have warned. Leading virologists fear a bad flu outbreak could ...