Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

A new study has uncovered dynamics of virus-bacteria interactions in the microgravity environment of the International Space ...

The discovery of a hybrid mpox virus and growing clade Ib infections reveal how mpox continues to evolve and spread in ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus would ...

Giant DNA viruses that infect eukaryotic cells are thought to have played a role in the evolution of life, according to the ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Study: Ancient evolutionary origins of hepatitis E virus in rodents. Image Credit: Shutterstock AI / Shutterstock.com A recent study published in PNAS describes the evolutionary origins of hepatitis E ...

Researchers have successfully reconstructed the ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from human ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...