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 ...

Mimivirus is the largest and most complex virus known. Is it an evolutionary bridge between nonliving viruses and living organisms, or is it just an anomaly? Aa Aa Aa Viruses are small and fairly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, ...

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 ...