The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of ...

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

Many pandemic viruses emerged naturally – but there’s one that most likely came from a lab - Research provides benchmark for distinguishing natural outbreaks from scenarios involving lab leaks ...

Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team of ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Scientists studying the virus’s continuing evolution, and the body’s immune responses, hope to head off a resurgence and to better understand long Covid. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli has ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Hopefully, you have already received your seasonal flu vaccine this year. These shots are highly effective at preventing illness, ultimately lowering the spread of the virus throughout the population.

Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the warning of a new paper in the journal Science Advances, which concluded that ...

WHO announces updated influenza vaccine strains for the 2026–27 northern hemisphere season, reflecting evolving flu virus ...