Due to the coronavirus pandemic, scientists this year made significant progress in understanding how respiratory viruses can be transmitted from one person to another through the air. As the year ...

Libusha Kelly receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Viruses are a mysterious and poorly understood force in microbial ecosystems. Researchers know they can infect, kill and ...

The World Health Organization is cautioning that there are still a lot of unknowns about the coronavirus outbreak. What may be an attempt to tamp down speculation and conflicting headlines about ...

Researchers have discovered new RNA bacteriophages, viruses that attack bacteria, advancing understanding of virus evolution. A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and ...

Over a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s still unclear exactly how it began. Dr. Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has become one of ...

The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin report in Nature ...

A new study shows how the virus that causes COVID-19 is related to the virus that caused the SARS outbreak of 2003. The new family tree of these viruses could help predict which viruses circulating in ...

Viral infections may have enormous global impacts, as evidenced by the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

Two new studies have advanced our understanding of bacteriophages or phages, which are viruses that infect bacterial cells. Bacteriophages are crucial organisms that can be found in the gut microbiome ...

In an unprecedented scientific achievement, researchers have managed to revive viruses that remained frozen for an approximate 50,000 years. The study not only advances our understanding of ancient ...

During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, there was a marked increase in neurological complications such as febrile seizures, encephalopathy or encephalitis, delirium, and focal neurologic syndromes, ...