A virus that infects nearly all children early in life has, in rare cases, been present within human DNA for thousands of years.

Viral DNA that is usually dismissed when sequencing the human genome could help to uncover useful information about complex ...

Neanderthals may have caught the same viruses that cause modern colds, cold sores, and some cancers. It's possible ancient humans introduced these unfamiliar viruses to their relatives. Understanding ...

Neanderthal remains from the Altai Mountains contain human viruses, a team of researchers has found, suggesting that infectious diseases may have been transmitted between anatomically modern humans ...

You may think that a virus is a virus, and they all afflict living things more or less the same. Yet while it is true that viruses attack most everything on Earth, the viruses that do the vexing ...

DNA scaffolds that mirror influenza virus protein geometry boost antiviral binding and reduce infection more effectively than free molecules, enabling a modular antiviral design strategy. (Nanowerk ...