Floating in the coastal waters of Chile, a team of French researchers has discovered and isolated yet another giant virus: Megavirus chilensis. Ringing in at a whopping 1.3 million base pairs, the ...

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 ...

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.

told AFP it was "absolutely" the largest outbreak of avian influenza the world had seen. He led research, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, showing how the virus rapidly ...