Virginia Tech researchers discovered the largest known latent virus infecting Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a green alga long thought to be virus-free. Named Punuivirus, it integrates into the host ...

Telomere phages, once ignored, help bacteria fight rivals using telocins. These toxins may target antibiotic-resistant ...

You might not have heard of them, but these are among virus families at high risk of causing the next pandemic, according to a threat list released by the government. The UK Health Security Agency ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that ...

Health officials in Britain have published a first-of-its-kind list of the disease-causing viruses they believe pose the greatest risk to humans - including four viruses highlighted as pandemic risks.

In very rare instances, the virus is spread through exposure in a lab, blood transfusions, organ transplants, or from mother to infant via the placenta or breastfeeding. It is not spread through ...