Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...

New research by scientists at the University of Toronto and the Structural Genomics Consortium has deepened our understanding ...

Viruses are natural delivery systems for nucleic acids, but they have several significant drawbacks: They aren’t targeted to any one cell type, for instance, and they can’t be re-dosed—the ...

In an important discovery, researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have ...

A whimsical adventure unfolds inside a body where germs plot to invade and make it sick. The protagonist, Andy, learns about ...

We found that fusion of normal differentiated human cells by an infectious virus, but not the infection itself, caused cell-cycle arrest 12. This observation led us to propose that a cell-cycle ...

Giant viruses, like the ones found in Yellowstone's hot springs, have been turning up in many odd corners of the planet.

What stands out, in our era of battling cartoon versions of each other online, is that its heroine actually goes out and talks to people. Lyonne’s character, Charlie Cale, lives out of her car while ...

Ground and air search efforts will resume in Pictou County on Saturday for missing children Lilly and Jack Sullivan. A Queens County man charged with murder in what police are calling a case of ...