A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

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

Recent findings suggest that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is involved in both causing multiple sclerosis (MS) and shaping its ...

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

A research team led by Václav Vopálenský and Martin Pospíšek from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, has discovered ...

In a new study, we and an international team of scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

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

An HIV-derived nucleoside therapy now treats rare genetic diseases by restoring mitochondrial DNA and improving muscle ...

Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding ...

Researchers at Utah State University revealed new details about CRISPR immune system defenses, such as Cas12a3 systems, that ...

A new study has identified the first known gene in eggplant that provides resistance to begomoviruses, a group of plant viruses responsible for major crop losses worldwide. The research shows that ...