For decades, biology textbooks have drawn a firm line: viruses are not alive. They lack the machinery to reproduce on their ...

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma ...

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opt its host’s systems with the help of ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. The study reveals a unique viral mechanism: a molecular ring anchors the viral copying machine ...

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...

Capcom and biotech art group LOM BABY bring Resident Evil’s T-virus to Shibuya PARCO, explaining the exhibit, safety claims, and real biotech context ...

Finding rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, in preserved medical specimens and analysing their RNA genome could let us ...

We ask a shocking question is humanity a virus. Retroviruses have inserted their code into our DNA over millions of years. Today a large part of our genome comes from ancient viruses. Some of this ...

It's that time of year again... the season of the never-ending sickness bug. As we slog through February and desperately wait for spring, it seems that literally everyone is still sick. And it's no ...