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

Now that the data is going to a 23andMe-adjacent nonprofit, which is also making similar promises, I guess nothing much has ...

Canadian-born physician-scientist Avindra Nath has spent his career studying the neurological manifestations of viral ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighbouring countries and spark a larger ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

The virus that commonly causes cold sores starts reshaping our genome within an hour of infection to boost its own growth, which scientists could take advantage of to treat severe cases.

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered how a key protein from the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), EBNA-LP, ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...

Here we defined the main viral determinant of Ebola virus pathogenicity; synthesis of the virion glycoprotein (GP) of Ebola virus Zaire induced cytotoxic effects in human endothelial cells in ...

In the transcription of mRNAs from the negative-strand genome template, the glycoprotein gene of Ebola virus (EBOV; but not Marburg virus (MARV)) undergoes editing to produce soluble variants of ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide insights into how mobile elements in DNA hijack cellular functions – and how ...