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

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

Bats are critical viral reservoirs that harbor viromes with a high risk of cross-species transmission. However, the diversity ...

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

Researchers have successfully reconstructed the ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from human remains that are over two thousand years old.

Temporal dynamics in divergence and adaptive fixation of the H5 AIV HA gene, in different host-specific lineages. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado9140 A team of virologists, ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...