Finnish scientists have identified the country's first giant virus, Jyvaskylavirus, in local soil. The virus infects amoebas ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have made a remarkable discovery: the first giant virus ever isolated ...

Biotech firms are engineering smarter, safer gene delivery systems to enhance the safety and efficacy of genetic medicines.

Hepatitis D virus (HDV) infects the liver and causes severe inflammation. According to WHO estimates, 12 million people ...

Proven effective for COVID-19, vaccine platform could be key in responding to evolving bird flu strains A developmental ...

A new software algorithm developed at Caltech enables researchers to easily search for viruses in RNA sequence data, enabling ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers have isolated a giant virus — 200 nanometres in diameter, about twice the size of influenza ... the genome and structure of the Jyvaskylavirus ...

Apr. 18, 2025 — A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and ...

Pigs are the most important reservoir for influenza A viruses, acting as an intermediary host for both interspecies transmission and genetic reassortment. This is due to the high susceptibility of ...