Tackling a common childhood virus could open the door to preventing bladder cancer, according to new research.

Some viruses mutate more rapidly than others. Learn more about why that is and what that means for your health.

Protein language models are AI algorithms that are trained to recognize relationships between billions of protein sequences from environments around the world. Communities of microbes are difficult to ...

Viruses are everywhere. Some are lethal, others harmless. Humanity is currently in the throes of a pandemic caused by a virus. Prof Matilu Mwau, who has had 20 years’ experience as a virologist, ...

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 ...

Viruses are a mysterious and poorly understood force in microbial ecosystems. Researchers know they can infect, kill, and manipulate human and bacterial cells in nearly every environment, from the ...

Did you know that mushrooms can get sick? It was in 1948, in a Pennsylvania mushroom farm operated by the La France brothers, that scientists first observed a mushroom malady featuring puny caps and ...

Of all mankind’s enemies, the tiniest and most elusive may also be the toughest : viruses. Despite recent breakthroughs, such as development of vaccines against polio, viruses still cause an immense ...

To a lot of people, a "virus" is often the first thing they think of when something goes wrong with their computer. The truth is, that these days a virus is almost never the culprit for your PC ...

For years, we've known that not all bacteria are enemies — some are actually good for us, and belong inside us. That understanding sparked a boom in probiotics science and a multibillion dollar ...

Throughout the cafeteria at Las Américas ASPIRA Academy High School in Newark, students were taking photos of each other with their cell phones. While teens taking photos of their friends isn’t new, ...