Virus-built silver appears much more effective against bacteria than commercial silver. In A Nutshell Lab safety tests showed ...

Viruses constantly emerge and evolve, with some posing significant threats to human and animal health, while others remain confined to specific species. A recently identified example of the latter is ...

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

Some viruses, known as bacteriophages, only infect bacterial cells, often destroying those bacteria in the process. Bacteria, in turn, can develop defenses against these viruses. Bacteriophages or ...

Newly published interdisciplinary research led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and University of Maryland shows ...

A virus relies on the host's translation machinery to replicate itself and become infectious. Translation efficiency ...

Scientists are warning of a new tick-borne disease called Wetland virus (WELV) that was recently discovered in China. A member of the orthonairovirus genus of viruses, WELV previously infected a man ...

Learn how plastic pollution is creating new pathways for antibiotic resistance to become an even bigger public health threat.

For many years, scientists have known that the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, can take up residence in parts of neurons in the peripheral nervous system. Stress can even ...

Forget about public restrooms: It turns out your own bathroom is teeming with viruses. Researchers at Northwestern University studied two things that most people use everyday—their toothbrush and ...