What I find especially distressing about it is how the worldwide adversity was caused by just a tiny thing — namely, a virus called SARS-CoV-2. However, biological viruses have always been a potent ...

Release of a highly communicable and deadly biological virus could kill tens of millions, with some estimates in the hundreds of millions." Publishing the genome and how the recreation was done ...

Perhaps all viruses arose via a mechanism yet to be uncovered. Today's basic research in fields like microbiology, genomics, and structural biology may provide us with answers to this basic question.

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

“This is the Chernobyl of biology.” Dr Robert Redfield ... Shi Zhengli was carrying out experiments on strains of corona- virus. Dr Redfield, 73, a former US army officer, also tells The ...

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of ...

Researchers hope the study can eventually find a way to predict when blooms will occur, and how to reduce their effects on ...

While it is critical to maintain facilities capable of tissue culture and other biological virus amplification methodologies, it is to everyone's benefit for clinical facilities to switch to more ...

What about viruses? Would you consider them living or nonliving? Let’s look closely at the life cycle of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – the virus that causes AIDS – to find out. This ...